The BBC reports that 33 people were killed and one hundred kidnapped in Gumsuri village, near the town of Maiduguri, in eastern Nigeria.  A survivor told the BBC that Boko Haram, a Muslim terrorist faction whose name translates to "Western education is forbidden," is the likely culprit. Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria. Attacks have increased since three states - Borno, Adamawa and Yobe - were put under emergency rule more than 18 months ago. The BBC also details an attack on a Cameroon military base, where the army claims to have killed 116 Nigerian militants.  Boko Haram is being blamed for this attack as well. Mainstream media outlets tend to condemn offenses like this without getting too much into details.  As the BBC puts it (emphasis added), "[m]ore than 2,000 people have been killed in militant violence this year alone[.]"  The AP,...(Read Full Post)