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 ]