All:
I think what is happening here is a classic case of hypnotism?  In other
words, common sense tells us that no one can 'loohoos' a person's body parts.
 So the logical explanation is that these fakirs hypnotize their victims to
believe that they are missing a body part.  But given the rife superstition
back home, folks thnk these charlatans are for real.  I heard that mob
justice was meted out to one of these so-called magicians in Nigeria very
recently.  The poor chap was murdered.

Habib, I do disagree with you on Sheikh Abdul Rahman.  He is a classic case
of these religious leaders preaching fire and brimstone on the 'civilized'
World from their mosques.  Rahman is/was the spiritual leader of the Islamic
Jihad in Egypt, a movement which produced the likes of Zawahari, Bin laden's
right hand man.  Rahman even visited Afghanistan during the war against the
Russians.  He was in cohoots with Al Qaida.  His blindness should not deter
from the fact that he is capable of inciting terrorism by using words.

_Yus

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