In news from Iraq, at least 20 people have died in the most violent day since Sunday’s election. The deadliest incident occurred in the northern city of Kirkuk where 12 Iraqi army recruits were killed following an ambush by Iraqi militants. In Baqoba, gunmen shot and killed two people driving in a vehicle carried by Iraqi contractors. In Mosul, a mortar attack on a US base killed two civilians and injured six. In the town of Qaim near the Syrian boarder, a car bomb exploded at a house used by U.S. military snipers. In the city of Samawah, gunmen overran ran a police station and killed one police officer. Near Ramadi, the governor of Anbar province narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. And two Marines were killed in fighting in the Anbar province which includes the city of Fallujah.