Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt (L) and Dan Senor the spokesman for U.S. led Coalition Provisional Authority take questions from journalists during press conference at the coalition forces headquarters in Baghdad February 3, 2004. The United States is committed to a July 1 handover of power in Iraq, despite Sunday's suicide bombings against key Kurdish allies, and is actively weighing compromise proposals for the transition, U.S. officials and experts said on Monday. REUTERS/Peter Andrews PA/GM