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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Saddam Hussein's Rooting Section
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- It might cheer Saddam Hussein to learn that he has a hard
- core of Western supporters -- specifically, South American drug
- smugglers. The narcotraficantes didn't need long to figure out
- that the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf may mean the
- redeployment of AWACS and other surveillance equipment away
- from the war on drugs. "The people we look at are in a chess
- game," says a U.S. customs official. "They do a constant threat
- update, just as we do." And the threat to traffickers figures
- to diminish, particularly if a hard-pressed Pentagon delays or
- cancels plans to improve U.S. antidrug surveillance in the
- Caribbean.
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