Since the end of the war, American administrators have put 37,000 police officers in place around the country.

American administrators say that elections are not possible on such short notice.

"If the situation lasts for the next six or seven months, the American administrators will feel like they're sitting on a big volcano," he said.

The project has been a priority for American administrators.

Experts say the American administrators have not moved quickly enough to quash the roots of the growing violence.

Also today, the American administrators in Baghdad summoned the city's police force back to work.

At the same time, American administrators insisted on balanced budgets and reduced the foreign debt, which helped create conditions for economic growth.

American administrators here are engaged in intense negotiations with Iraqi leaders over the means by which the national assembly will be chosen.

American administrators have issued an order banning people associated with illegal militias from taking part in elections.

The team is expected to try to break the deadlock between a senior Iraqi religious leader and American administrators over direct elections.