Iraqi terrorists take a page out of the Palestinians playbook and target civilians

This is the kind of stuff that makes me feel ill. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed 77 people and reduced two crowded Shi'ite mosques to rubble during Friday prayers in a northeastern Iraq town, deepening the country's sectarian conflict. More bodies were trapped in the rubble, said Ibrahim Ahmed Bajalan, a member of the local council in Khanaqin. "I think there are more than 100 people dead," he said. Another lesser blast was reported near a bank in the town, police said. Kamaran Ahmed, the director of Khanaqin hospital, said 77 people had been confirmed killed and 80 were wounded. He said many bodies were too badly mutilated to identify. The death toll rose steadily through the day but looked to be stabilizing. The attacks in the mixed Shi'ite and Kurdish town near the border with Iran seemed certain to fuel sectarian tensions ahead of a December 15 election that Washington hopes will pave the way for peace and democracy 2-1/2 years after the U.S.-led invasion. The Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government and its U.S. backers are fighting a mainly Sunni Arab insurgency that has frequently blown up civilians in crowded places like mosques and markets. Police said the bombers entered the small Sheikh Murad and Khanaqin Grand mosques with explosive belts strapped to their waists and detonated themselves when the buildings were at their busiest -- during prayers on the Muslim holy day. Earlier this month, nearly 30 people were killed at a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad. Kurdish peshmerga militia forces sealed off Khanaqin shortly after the blasts, and U.S. forces also came to help, ferrying the wounded to hospitals in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya. They blew up a mosque. Not a military base, or checkpost... a mosque. A mosque filled with innocent civilians, women, children, fellow coutnrymen whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is the sort of scum that we're trying to help train the fledgling Iraqi military to combat. This is the sort of filth that prolongs our stay. This is the sort of human waste that will take over the country if we bring our troops home now. That's something you'd have to live with Senator John Murtha, if you and your fellow democrats succeed at destroying the resolve that is the foundation of this president and forcing him to bring our troops home now. Then we'll have accomplished nothing but aided and abetted the terrorists, basically handing them their own nation. Democrats really piss me off.