Guerrillas mounted fresh attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday and a Lebanese-American contractor became the latest victim of a kidnapping spree in the run-up to a threatened U.S. assault on the rebel cities of Falluja and Ramadi. Violence surged again in Iraq as the world awaited the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election in the United States, which has grappled with a relentless insurgency since last year’s invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.Full Story