[link|http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&u=/ap/20030417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_iraq_museums&printer=1|How did they get the keys?]

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Although much of the looting was haphazard, experts said some of the thieves clearly knew what they were looking for and where to find it, suggesting they were prepared professionals.

"It looks as if part of the looting was a deliberate planned action," said McGuire Gibson, a University of Chicago professor and president of the American Association for Research in Baghdad. "They were able to take keys for vaults and were able to take out important Mesopotamian materials put in safes."

"I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country, in fact I'm pretty sure it was," Gibson said. He added that if a good police team was put together, "I think it could be cracked in no time."

I say:

Why would it have to have been organized outside the country? Was the outgoing regime unable to plan a simple looting without having an offsite meeting?