CIA officers in Iraq have warned the Bush administration that a civil war may break out in Iraq. According to the Knight Ridder news agency, the officers delivered this verbal warning earlier this week. The situation was discussed by Bush, his top national security aides and Paul Bremer who is heading up the U.S. occupation. One senior official told Knight Ridder that regional experts in the State Department and National Security Council agree with the assessment which is far bleaker than anything the administration is publicly discussing. One intelligence officer said “Both the Shiites and the Kurds think that now’s their time. They think that if they don’t get what they want now, they’ll probably never get it. Both of them feel they’ve been betrayed by the United States before.”