perfidy

Via "Bootsy," loyal reader #00004, comes this article which advances our competing theories about the looting of the Baghdad Museum. Thesis: it was an inside job, planned for years by an international cartel. According to the article, US Central Command reportedly are still unaware of any organized looting. In other news, Oliver North is a patriot, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Some have advanced the theory that the Army looked the other way while short-term strategically valuable allies of necessity (former Ba'ath leaders, etc.) ransacked the Museum. By my sophistic use of the word "some" plus the passive voice, I intend to signal that I can't find any reason either to confirm or disavow this theory, but I thought I'd hoist the petard skywards nonetheless.