Israeli agriculture officials estimate that 80 percent made their way to the West Bank, where thieves sold them.

After stripping off the insulation, the thieves then sold it at local scrap yards.

The thieves will sell Hochman's art to the insurance companies, through us.

Why, then, has the thief not sold the treaty?

"Or a greater thief than most, for he would sell his liberator," laughed Valerius.

The thieves would then drive the trucks to downtown Baghdad and sell the fuel on the Iraqi black market.

But thieves broke into the lot and sold most of them off as scrap metal.

The thieves then changed the vehicle identification numbers and either sold the cars to unsuspecting buyers or used them themselves, prosecutors said.

"The thief was selling them in a live auction," he said.

"I'm bonded," he said, but if his cargo was stolen from some hotel parking lot, the thieves would just sell it back to him.