The International Crisis Group is set to issue a report today warning that if provincial elections are held Sunday they could set off an ethnic war around Kirkuk. If the Kurds sweep the elections for regional council, the report warns that Turkey might be tempted to intervene in order to protect the city’s ethnic Turkmen population. In other Iraq news, at least eight polling stations across the country were attacked today by rockets, mortar shells and bombs. Political offices were also targeted.