KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, Feb. 24, 2004 — A United Nations report that says elections in Iraq can take place late this year or early in 2005 if preparations begin now is helpful, the Coalition Provisional Authority administrator said Feb. 23.
     In a statement issued from his Baghdad, Iraq, headquarters, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III called the report "a constructive contribution to our mutual goal of transferring to the Iraqi people a sovereign, democratic Iraq." More

     BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 23, 2004 — Polls indicate Iraqis want the occupation of their country to end, but don't want the coalition to leave, the senior spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority said here today.
     Dan Senor said the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are grateful for their liberation and are glad that Saddam Hussein's rule is over. They want to rule themselves, he said, but they know the security situation in Iraq requires continued coalition presence. More

     WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2004 — Task Force Ironhorse soldiers arrived on the scene today at a police station in Kirkuk, Iraq, to provide security and medical assistance following a car bomb attack there, according to a Combined Joint Task Force 7 release.
     The attack took place at the Rahimawah police station shortly after 8 a.m. local time. Iraqi police engaged a white four- door sedan as it sped through an entrance gate at the police station.
     The vehicle, carrying an improvised explosive device, detonated inside the courtyard of the police station. The explosion killed eight Iraqi national police officers and wounded at least 33 others along with two children.