it is starting to look as if the americans are being chumped by allawi on najaf:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...A34B03946E.htm
allawi changes the rules after al-sadr had agreed to a truce earlier in the week--the americans are in a position to flatten one of the holiest shrines for the shi'a population--there was a way out, but allawi seems to want the americans to take the hit for destroying najaf.
what gives here?