Iraq looting

One of the wonderful things about the slow death of the newspaper firewall era (in which you needed a subscription to access "premium content") is that Robert Fisk's reporting for the Independent is now freely available.

Remember the orgy of looting that broke out after the US invasion of Iraq? How there were troops protecting the Ministry of Oil and little else? (There is an excellent chapter on this whole episode in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book Imperial Life in the Emerald City.)

Well, the looting never stopped. In fact, the looters just took over. Read Fisk and weep.