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| North Cameroon Bans Full Islamic Veil after Suicide Attacks |
| 2015-07-17 |
| [AnNahar] A northern region of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , which has suffered frequent attacks by the jihadist Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... group, has banned the use of the full Islamic veil, governor Bakari Midjiyawa said Thursday. "The full veil is completely forbidden" in the Far North region, where two women suicide kaboomers who were wearing the covering killed 11 people on Sunday, Midjiyawa told AFP. "We have asked... police to question any woman who wears the full veil," he added. On Saturday, in another sign of Boko Haram's threat to regional security, a jacket wallah disguised as a woman in a full-face veil went kaboom!in Chad's capital N'Djamena, killing 15. The full veil is banned in Moslem-majority Chad. Midjiyawa admitted the northern Cameroon ban would not be enough to stop jihadists from committing atrocities. "A terrorist can easily hide an explosive under a robe or in a jacket," he said, as he announced other bans including on tinted windows for vehicles and on cycle of violence traffic at night. "The faceless myrmidons change strategy all the time, and we must adjust," Midjiyawa added. Boko Haram's deadly insurgency has killed at least 15,000 people since 2009 and left more than 1.5 million homeless. The group's recent upsurge in attacks on civilians comes after a four-nation coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon pushed out the turbans from captured territory earlier this year. |
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