Three Iraqi poll staff shot
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THREE staff working at an Iraqi election office were gunned down in a known trouble spot in central Baghdad today, a spokesman for the body organising next month&#39;s landmark polls said.
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Insurgents bent on sabotaging Iraq's  Jan. 30 elections unleashed mortars and bombs and opened fire  in several cities Monday, killing at least 22 policemen and  soldiers and targeting polling stations.
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A suicide bomber killed four people near a checkpoint south of Baghdad and militants abducted three senior Iraqi officials on Saturday amid fears of an escalating insurgency aimed at sabotaging a Jan. 30 election.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed at least 21 Iraqis and wounded 13 outside a US military facility in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, on Sunday.
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A suicide attacker killed three people and injured 13 others in central Iraq when he boarded a minibus bound for a polling station in Babil province, the Polish military said.
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AT least 60 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in Iraq car-bombings overnight, while gunmen carried out a brazen ambush on a car in Baghdad, killing three election officials.
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Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage.
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Suspected Taliban militants beheaded three Afghan soldiers in the troubled southern province of Zabul over the weekend in the latest pre-election violence, an official said Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  - A suicide bomber posing as a taxi  driver killed three people near the headquarters of Iraqi Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi's party in Baghdad on Monday as insurgents  pressed a bloody campaign to disrupt a Jan. 30 election.
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Gunmen open fire on a group of tourists in eastern Yemen, killing three people, security official says
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Insurgents unleashed a wave of bloody  attacks on Iraq's historic election Sunday, killing at least 22  people and wounding dozens in suicide bombings and mortar  strikes at polling stations across the country.
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Gunmen and bombers launched three attacks on U.S.-backed neighborhood security patrols in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least three of the patrol members and wounding 17.
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Insurgents stepped up attacks Thursday against polling centers across Iraq, killing at least a dozen people, including a U.S. Marine, in the rebel campaign to frighten Iraqis away from participating in this weekend's election.
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BAGHDAD - A militant Islamic group has killed three hostages in Iraq, a video posted on its website shows. The three men, identified as members of an Iraqi Kurdish group, were killed for helping the Americans, a statement accompanying the tape said.
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Gunmen have ambushed a group of senior police officers in northern Iraq, killing two of them and wounding three. Police said that two other high-ranking officers, a brigadier and a colonel, were gunned down in southern Baghdad.
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Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy  police chief and a suicide car bomber killed three people at a  police station Monday as insurgents stepped up their campaign  to sabotage Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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Iraqi forces, backed by US troops, kill three people in a raid on one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques.