Security in An Najaf Province is now directly under Iraqi control.

SORRY, BOYS, THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES: Craig Brett notes that the New York Times recently declared Iraqi security forces unworthy of...what the Marine Expeditionary Force just gave them. And if the Times were to protest that the article didn't claim An Najaf's security forces to be "foundering," well then, why wasn't that made clear in the rather sweeping lede?