Still at it in Baghdad

The International Herald Tribune has the story by Alissa Rubin:

A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up just inside the courtyard of a Shiite mosque in a town south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 12 people and injuring 19 others, according to eyewitnesses and officials. The attack took place in Mussayib, a town about 50 miles south of Baghdad, as about 700 people were attending Friday prayers and preparing to hold a peaceful march in protest at the ratification in the Iraqi Parliament on Thursday of a new security agreement with the United States. Mussayib, a predominantly Shiite town, has many Sunni villages nearby and has been struck several times in the past by suicide bombings and attacks on local government officials. The mosque, the Sadrist Hussainiya, was a Sunni mosque under Saddam Hussein. But after he was ousted supporters of the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr took it over and turned it into a Shiite mosque and an office for the local Sadrists.
The bomber made it past the main checkpoints where worshippers were searched, said an Iraqi Army officer, who said he could not be quoted because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
"I was standing inside the Hussainiya and do not remember anything except feeling something like the blast of a storm," said Ne'ma Adnan, 18, a day laborer.
The Iraqi Parliament on Thursday ratified a sweeping security agreement that sets the course for an end to the United States' role in the war and marks the beginning of a new relationship between the countries. The pact, which still must be approved by Iraq's three-person presidency council, a move expected in the next few days, sets the end of 2011 as the date by which the last American troops must leave the country. But Sadr and some hard-line Sunni Arabs disagreed vehemently with the idea of striking a deal with the United States, and he has urged his followers to protest the agreement.

Rico says 2012 would be a welcome end to all this bullshit, except the other side won't quit...