Stick 'em up!

"Mr Matairi said he had glanced up at one point and seen the soldiers loading the hotel's money into sacks. A little later he and the hotel workers were taken to a lavatory and deliberately splashed with water from the toilet bowl." Ehm...in the big hurrah about the torture of these people by British troops, the Guardian has not mentioned anywhere in it's article what these troops were doing loading up the hotels money into a truck in the first place. Why?