The Associated Press reports worshipers were massacred at two Shiite mosques near Iraq's ian border.
According to the Associated Press, the terrorists attacked the Sheik Murad mosque and the Khaniqin Grand Mosque in Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending Friday prayers.
The Washington Post offers this account of the mosque attacks:
In Khanaqin, a mixed Shiite and Kurdish town 80 miles northeast of Baghdad, wearing suicide belts walked into the two mosques and lined up among worshipers gathered for Friday prayers, then detonated their explosives as the imams at both mosques delivered their sermons.
The explosions collapsed the roofs of the Sheikh Murad Mosque and the larger Khanaqin Grand Mosque. Residents rushed to the scenes to search the rubble for victims. But after darkness fell, searchers called off the hunt for bodies for the night. Police said the toll is likely to rise after the search for victims resumes Saturday.
Neither the Associated Press or the Post could bring itself to refer to the evil doers as terrorists. The Post simply states "[t]he insurgency in Iraq is led by Sunni Muslims, the most radical of whom regard Shiites as heretics and accuse them of collaborating with U.S. forces. No sense of outrage or even condemnation over innocents being slaughtered as they worshiped.
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