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GRAPEVINE, Page 23Heavy Surveillance And Cheese
By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
After Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi diplomats
and their families stationed in the U.S. began to notice that
someone was watching them. Following a State Department order
that Iraq recall 36 diplomats and their families, one carload
of evicted Iraqis got lost on the way to the airport; up popped
the FBI agents who had been shadowing them to provide helpful
directions. Later, while waiting for their flight, some restive
and hungry Iraqi children were treated to pizza by attentive
G-men. These were not spontaneous acts of kindness. The FBI was
sending a message to Saddam that his people could not move
without being monitored by Uncle Sam. Bureau officials believe
this breathe-down-their-necks strategy may keep Iraq and its
sympathizers from hatching terrorist plots in the U.S.