Insurgents set off a car bomb outside a mosque in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato, 130 miles north of Baghdad. The attack killed 12 worshippers leaving the mosque and injured 21 more.
Iraqi police were able to stop a second man wearing a suicide bomb belt from reaching a second mosque. Authorities believe he was going to detonate the bomb near the second mosque. The man identified himself as Muhammed Ali and said he was a citizen of Saudi Arabia.
Elsewhere, militants killed at least 12 more people across the country as they continue to try to destabilize the nation prior to the October 15 vote on the proposed Iraqi constitution.
The insurgents are attempting to introduce sectarian violence into the equation and have Sunni Muslims and Shi'ite Muslims fight between themselves to destabilize the government. The group calling itself al-Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for most of this week's attacks which have killed nearly 200 people and injured another 600.
Yesterday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the United Nations, 'Today, Iraq is facing one of the most brutal campaigns of terror at the hands of the forces of darkness.'
