WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Joseph Biden.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Joseph Biden, an influential senator forward US foreign policy, warned that Iraq could fall into civil war after the United States hands from one side of to the other power to Iraqis on June 30

Biden remind ofed that a United Nations high commissioner be appointed to overlook the country's political transition, and that a NATO force of near 20,000 soldiers provide security.

It will take three years to form a novel Iraqi army, Biden told Fox recently made knowns Channel.

"We're going to expiration up with worst of all worlds," he said. "We're going to finis up with a civil war in Iraq if in fact we decide we can employ this over, including the mass of the security, to the Iraqis between now and then."

US superintendent in Iraq Paul Bremer could be replaced from a UN high commissioner who would answer directly to the UN Security Council, Biden said.

"And