museum looting in the arab world

Since the opening of the twenty first century there has been a series of looting of museums in Irag and Eygpt plus a fire in the Iragie library. There seems to be a pateurn of robbery but for what the stealing of itemst to sell on the black market or is that a front to hide other reasons such to find or hide information of inportance to someones in their battle for power this is very suspicious and should be look into.