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| Cameroon Mosque Suicide Blast Kills 12 People | |
| 2016-01-14 | |
| [ALMANAR.LB] A jacket wallah killed 12 worshippers at a mosque in northern 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... on Wednesday, security officials said, in an area regularly targeted by Nigeria's 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... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s. The blast struck the mosque in the village of Kouyape, in Kolofata district north near the Nigerian border, at around 5:30 am (0430 GMT) during morning prayers, a security source said. Since July last year Cameroon's far north has been hit by a series of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Takfiri group, ISIL (so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq and Levant). "Eleven worshippers were killed at the scene. A twelfth died of his wounds in hospital," the security source said, adding that the attacker was praying alongside other worshippers when he went kaboom!. Another source close to the security services confirmed the blast killed 12 people and the bomber. The bombing came after two people were killed overnight in the same area in another attack blamed on Boko Haram, the security source said. Cameroon has beefed up its military presence along the Nigerian border as part of a regional coalition, after years of doing little to stop Boko Haram fighters using its territory as a rear base to arm and equip themselves.
Cameroon has meanwhile banned the Islamic veil in a bid to pre-empt suicide kabooms staged by attackers wearing the full-face veil. Despite the offensives launched by regional forces, the group maintains strongholds in areas that are difficult to access, such as the Sambisa forest, the Mandara mountains and the numerous islands of Lake Chad. | |
| Posted by:Fred |