More along the lines of this week’s other, unrelated isolated incidents:

BAQOUBA, Iraq June 26, 2004 ? Insurgents attacked two political party offices and a government building Saturday, killing three people and wounding two, the latest in an upsurge in violence just days before Iraq’s interim government takes power.

Also Saturday, a car bombing wounded a Kurdish government official and killed one of his bodyguards in the northern city of Irbil, according to police and a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.