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Mexico's 'grand warlock' predicts Castro's death, no border fence in 2007 By THERESA BRAINE | Associated Press January 3, 2007 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Fidel Castro will be dead by May. Presidential candidate-turned-protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will fade into obscurity. The anti-immigration wall between the United States and Mexico will not get built. These and a dozen other predictions are what's in store for 2007, Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" said Wednesday in his annual forecast for the new year. Antonio Vazquez, better known as the "Brujo Mayor," has made predictions since 1980 on events ranging from politics and...

MORE ON WARLOCK'S TRICKS It's not much. But I've got a leeetle more information on the military's hush-hush defense against improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.The Warlock radio frequency jammers are made by the New York and Simi Valley firm EDO. And they're based on an earlier EDO product called the Shortstop Electronic Protection System, which is designed to protect troops against proximity-fused weapons, like mortar rounds and artillery shells. According to EDO, Shortstop grabs the electronic signal that one of these weapons makes, "modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is...