I guess that is why they will be in there soon.
"S. Bara Falilou Mbacke, spiritual leader in Senegal" by Sadibou Marone, Associated Press | July 2, 2010
Once again I do not get the printed photograph with my web version.
DAKAR, Senegal — The spiritual chief of Senegal, who assumed leadership of the West African nation’s most powerful Muslim brotherhood three years ago, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 85.
Sheik Serigne Bara Falilou Mbacke died in the holy city of Touba, Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye announced over state radio early Thursday.
Mbacke was 82 when he was designated the sixth leader, or caliph, of the Mourides shortly after his predecessor died in December 2007. He was a grandson of the brotherhood’s founder, Sheik Ahmadou Bamba.
Ndiaye called the death a “very great loss for all the nation’’ and praised the late leader’s “erudite wisdom.’’
Millions of people were expected to attend mourning ceremonies in Touba over the next few days, including President Abdoulaye Wade.
Senegal has at least two other brotherhoods, which like the Mourides have their own particular interpretation of Islam.
And they all get along?
The Mourides’ spiritual leaders, called marabouts, offer guidance and blessings to their followers, acting as intermediaries between them and God.
Although Senegal is a secular country, the majority of its democratically elected rulers have sought the endorsement of Mouride leaders. While exact numbers are not known, about a tenth of Senegal’s 11 million citizens are said to be Mourides, including Wade.
Religious officials named the new caliph as 84-year-old Serigne Cheikh Maty Leye Mbacke. He is the grandson of the brotherhood’s founder, who began the religious movement in 1927.
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Never made my printed paper. I would have noted it.
Also see: The AmeriKan MSM's Senegal Schooling
That's all I knew of Senegal from my paper before today.
Another nation you rarely read about in the AmeriKan newspaper:
"Aristids Lambergs; fought for freedom in native Latvia" by J.M. Lawrence, Globe Correspondent | July 2, 2010
Aristids J. Lambergs, a contractor and businessman who fled Latvia as a boy during the Russian invasion in the 1940s, spent decades fighting for his Baltic homeland’s independence and raising awareness of life behind the Iron Curtain.
Mr. Lambergs, who immigrated to the United States in 1950 and spent 10 years in the Massachusetts National Guard, died from cancer June 23 at his home in Westwood. He was 75.
In 1983, he organized a blockade in Boston that kept a Soviet ship from delivering lumber and vodka. He and other Latvian freedom fighters celebrated by paying the Boston longshoremen’s lost wages and dumping Russian vodka into the harbor....
The Boston Vodka Party?
Mr. Lambergs, who was president of the Latvian American Association in the 1980s, saw his dream of a free Latvia realized in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He went back to Latvia and threw himself into efforts to rejuvenate the economy....
Mr. Lambergs’s activism led to his arrest outside the Soviet Embassy in Washington in the 1980s, when he refused to shut down a protest where five young exiles had encased their feet in concrete to symbolize their countrymen’s slavery.
Just as the police arrived, Mr. Lambergs ordered other activists to leave before they faced arrest and criminal records that could hurt their careers, recalled Anita Terauds, who was secretary general of the American Latvian Association in Washington for 24 years.
“You don’t forget seeing your boss being put in handcuffs,’’ Terauds said.
I wouldn't have forgotten seeing Bush or Cheney in them, that's for sure!
Mr. Lambergs was also a member of delegations of Latvian exiles that attended key diplomatic conferences in the 1980s, including a trip to Jurmala in Latvia in 1986. He also met with President Reagan and with Pope John Paul II.
He was ultimately disappointed in some of the ways of the new Latvia, according to Terauds....
I'll tell you, I know the feeling.
R.I.P., fellas.
