New York Times on looting in Iraq...

If you remember last month I blogged about a Christopher Hitchens article about looting in Iraq before/during/after the war. Here is another piece in the New York Times today about stuff now showing up in markets. Key quote:

Much more valuable machinery also vanished from some of the sites in the weeks after the invasion: so-called dual-use equipment, which could be used in civilian manufacturing and in building parts for nuclear weapons. Witness accounts have indicated that much of it was carried off in systematic looting in the six to eight weeks after Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003. That equipment, which investigators say was more likely coveted for its monetary value rather than its military value, disappeared without any public trace. If an entire artillery factory could come this close to crossing the border, some military specialists say, then the dual-use equipment had a chance of getting out as well.

Could this be why they never found WMD?