CRIME WRITER ROGER SIMON on the U.N. bombing:

[W]e never did find out where all that money went. You know, those gazillions in oil-for-food cash Kofi & Co. was supposedly administering but ended up lining a lot of pockets in various quarters in Iraq and elsewhere. There was even a Congressional Hearing with the usual results (not much). Those records just have not surfaced. Slippery fingers, I guess.

Now maybe I’m just being one of those paranoid conspiracy theorists… or a crime writer with too many plots… but cui bono, as they say, when UN headquarters in Iraq gets blown to smithereens?… (Unless, of course, its computers and accounts books were locked in a secure vault under the building– as if)… And, yes, I know there were obviously other motives. But at the various least, I guess we could call this “collateral damage.”

By the way, where has the major media been on this story? Nobody’s been following this up as far as a know, but it’s one of the great heists of our time.

Where, indeed. Just remember, Simon was right about the museum looting being an inside job.

UPDATE: Niraj notes an interesting passage from the bombing story.