Looters emptied the house of Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz, “stealing everything from paintings to curtains, kitchen units, and even stripped the electrical wires from the villa’s main switchboard. But what they left behind in his library was politically notable: the complete works of Saddam Hussein in Arabic, the mafia novels of Mario Puzo, author of the Godfather, and a book on geopolitics by Richard Nixon, former US president.”