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| Global update | Insurgents launch attacks on Iraqi polling centers BY ROBERT H. REID THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq — 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. As part of an intensifying cam paign of intimidation, an al-Qaida affiliate led by Jordanian terror mas termind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi posted a videotape on the Internet showing the murder of a candidate from the party of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The tape included a warning to Allawi personally: “You traitor, wait for the angel of death.” To protect voters on Sunday, hun dreds of American soldiers began moving out of their garrison on the western edge of Baghdad to take up positions at smaller bases through out the city to respond more quickly to any election day attacks. Sunni Muslim insurgents have threatened to disrupt the balloting when Iraqis choose a 275-member National Assembly and governing councils in the country’s 18 provinces. Voters in the Kurdish self governing area of the north will select a new regional parliament. In the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah, where opposition to the balloting is strong, U.S. Marines drove through the city Thursday, urging people through loudspeakers to turn out Sunday. Spokesman lst.Lt. Lyle Gilbert said the Marines were “encouraging people to capitalize on this opportunity to ex ercise their voice by voting in the upcoming free elections.” Iraqi newspapers also published for the first time the names of some 7,000 National Assembly candidates, many of whose identities had been kept secret to protect them from assassination. The interim government will de ploy an additional 2,500 troops to help guard the elections, the Defense Ministry said. A total of 300,000 Iraqi and multinational troops will pro vide security, with Iraq’s U.S.-trained forces taking the lead role. About 9,000 Iraqi troops also are being dispatched to guard r Violence increases as election nears MULTI NATIONAL BRIGADE/ NORTH ( Baghdad j. f ''1ST*S cavalry/ 1ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE MULTI NATIONAL /brigade /CENTRAL kSOUThy fates ft MULTINATIONAL BRIGADE SOUTHEAST-* More than 11 Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday in pre election violence. TURKEY Tikrit Civilian killed by roadside bomb — Samarra Three Iraqi civilians killed by car bomb SYRIA JOR Ramadi Iraqi National Guard soldier killed guarding voting center Kirkuk Seven polling stations attacked with mortars and machine guns; one policeman killed Beiji Car bomb near U.S. base;no casualties Baqouba Iraqi soldier killed by car bomb IRAN SAUDI ARABIA 0 50 mi 0 50 km Mahmoudiya Three Iraqis killed in road side bomb Iskandariyah Marine killed, five injured in mortar attack SOURCE: ESRI AP oil pipelines, which insurgents repeatedly have targeted. Iraq’s national security adviser, Qassim Dawoud, acknowledged that security remains shaky in four provinces but expressed opti mism that extensive security meas ures would protect voters and encourage turnout. However, attacks were reported Thursday in at least seven provinces, including relatively peaceful Basra in the south, where militants fired mor tar shells at four schools designated as polling stations. U.S. troops and rebels also exchanged fire Thursday on Haifa Street in central Baghdad, witnesses said. One Marine was killed and five others were wounded when insur gents fired mortars at their base near Iskandariyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad in tense Babil province. Another three Iraqis were killed and seven injured when a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in Mahmoudiya, a religiously mixed area of Babil province, hospital officials said. Most of the attacks occurred in Salaheddin province in an area of the Sunni triangle north and west of Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi officials have identified as one of the key trouble spots. Three Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Hours later, mortar shells fell on a designated polling station in Samarra, police said. Armed men in Samarra blew up a school administration building after first ordering the staff to leave, police Lt. Qassim Mohammed said. 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