] It was the day of the looter. They trashed the German
] Embassy and threw the ambassador's desk into the yard. I
] rescued the European Union flag - flung into a puddle of
] water outside the visa section - as a mob of middle-aged
] men, chadored women and screaming children rifled through
] the consul's office and hurled Mozart records and German
] history books from a window.
]
] The Slovakian Embassy was broken into a few hours later.

US blind to looters' fury