1) Insurgents tried to blow up the party headquarters of the Iraqi interim prime minister on Monday. When policemen tried to stop the vehicle, the car exploded.
2) Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was not inside the building, but the blast killed three people and wounded more than two dozen others.
3) A week ago Monday, a suicide car bomb targeted another powerful political figure. The explosion killed and wounded scores of people, but Mr. Hakim was not injured.
4) In the past several weeks, insurgents have mostly targeted politicians and Iraq's security forces, because they fear losing power to the majority Shiites at the polls on January 30th.
5) Government and Shiite leaders including Mr. Hakim say they are just as determined to hold elections on time as insurgents are in trying to derail them.
