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US advisers warn threat of civil war mounting in Iraq

Baghdad leaders must take reins, Bush aides say

By Bryan Bender
Globe Staff / March 1, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Describing the situation in Iraq as ''very tenuous," President Bush's top intelligence advisers warned in a blunt assessment yesterday that mounting violence between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims there could spark a full-blown civil war unless a unified government can quickly take the reins of the country. (Full article: 941 words)

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