Col. Walter Piatt, commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, speaks with Abdullah Hussein Jabouri, the deputy governor of Salah ad-Din province at an elections security meeting chaired by Abdullah in Tikrit, Iraq, Jan. 27. Representatives from the Iraqi High Electoral Commission, the Iraqi police, Iraqi army, the U.S. Army, the U.S. State Department and the mayors from the major towns and cities in the province attended the meeting to make final security arrangements for the Jan. 31 provincial elections.