It doesn't give any more insight into Saddam's tastelessness than we already knew. In my estimate, this article is a day late and a dollar short. We've seen all of this on TV news channels and read about it all since 4/11 when that statue of Saddam took the plunge in Baghdad. I think most of us knew that Saddam was a tasteless puke, especially after all the stories about the atrocities committed by him and his regime these past 30 years. I didn't need to hear about this journalist being locked in a bathroom with one of our troops. I don't think it's a newsworthy story. Now if he'd toured the place prior to its being looted, now there would have been s story.
Not if we were watching CNN, apparently...