US Winning Najaf Battle, Losing Iraq War.
/Once again, U.S. armed forces appear on the verge
of winning a decisive military victory in Iraq -- this
time in the holy city of Najaf. And once again, they
appear closer to losing the larger wars for a stable
and friendly Iraq and for an Islamic world that will
cease producing anti-U.S. terrorism. That is the rapidly growing
concern of Middle East and Islamic specialists as U.S. Marines, after a
week of fighting, captured virtually all of central Najaf on
Thursday, including the home of Mehdi Army leader Moqtada al-Sadr, and
launched a final siege of the Imam Ali mosque, which is considered the
world's holiest shrine by some 120 million Shi'ite Muslims. [more 
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