At the same time, coalition authority and Iraqi officials are drafting operating rules for the private security companies.

Pentagon leaders, fearing that continuing the effort to capture the city might further inflame a larger revolt against coalition authority, pulled back the forces.

On that date the coalition provisional authority will cease to exist.

Only by understanding these ties and then using them to its advantage will the coalition authority reduce the resistance.

Since the collapse of Baghdad's phone system has been a major source of postwar problems, coalition authorities should have been pleased.

"Are we partners with the coalition authorities in Iraqi affairs?"

The coalition authority spent almost six months formulating tribunal plans with Iraqis.

Officials of the coalition authority insist the Security Council did that with Resolution 1483.

Many other Iraqi governing institutions should also be reactivated by the governing council, with the support of the coalition authority.

He has a list of items he has been told to pack by the coalition authority.