And still it spreads:

<<Nigeria suffered one of its bloodiest days as terrorists carried out a massacre on 42 children and teachers at a boarding school in the country’s insurgent-plagued north-east>>

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10163942/Extremist-attack-in-Nigeria-kills-42-at-boarding-school.html

And guess where their supplies come from?

<<Soldiers in northern Nigeria have uncovered a hidden arms cache that authorities there believe belonged to members of the Lebanese militant movement Hizbollah>>

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10090457/Nigerian-military-claim-to-have-discovered-Hizbollah-arms-cache.html

Spqr,

Yes a diabolically gruesome story of the action of "extremists".

We should go back even further on the trail and to the origin of those armaments.

Some countries make huge profits out of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry

All coming from the same vendors as those which blew up plenty of Iraqis.

Humans are savage beasties.

I think SPQR is wrong.
In using the word extremist.
Nigeria and the current murders in Iraq are every day events therefore maybe the word extremist is wrong, every day acts from ordinary people?
I am considering what I did on posting the thread.
What next? dismantling of Democratic governments seems one thing.
But more Dictators ships? murders? will refugee numbers sky rocket?
We are in one way or another going to see great changes in this part of the world.

Belly,

"...every day acts from ordinary people..."

What makes you say that the average Nigerian or Iraqi would commit a crime such as this as an everyday occurrence?

It's an atrocity committed by "extremists" - and would be seen as such by any fair-minded commentator.

Poirot you can not have it both ways.
You put the blame on the west for these events and I say that is not always true.
You challenge my view it is not just extremists but an all too common event.
Why then is it not also such in almost every country in the world.
Would we live with such without forcing some change?
On the evidence before us it is not uncommon in these country,s to see death of Muslim at the hand of Muslim.

Belly,

In no way do I put the "entire" blame on the West.

I do, however, acknowledge the West's part in destabilisation and in sometimes pushing economic imperatives which add to tensions between peoples.