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Enough of the bullshit, kill him and be done with it. At least if he’s martyred, he can’t run his mouth – and the blind fanatics who listen to him will lose his guidance.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Guerrillas in Iraq attacked a police station, killing 13 officers, and tried to assassinate a National Guard general with a car bomb on Tuesday, hours after Osama bin Laden threw his weight behind the insurgent campaign.

Attacks on Iraq’s U.S.-backed security forces may be partly aimed at disrupting next month’s election; bin Laden called on Iraqis to boycott the vote and endorsed Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi as al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, racking up intimidation that could wreck Washington’s hopes for a legitimate new government.

Hours after the purported bin Laden audiotape was broadcast on Al Jazeera television, calling anyone who voted an “infidel,” insurgents in Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit mounted a dawn raid on a police station, killing 13 and wounding two.