From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam"  wrote in message
news:44153f36{at}w3....
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR20060313000
70.html
>
> wrt Iran:
>
> "Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns told the Post that the
> department will also add staff in Dubai, which is part of the United Arab
> Emirates, as well as at other embassies in the vicinity of Iran, all
> assigned to watch Tehran. He called the new Dubai outpost the "21st
> century equivalent" of the Riga station in Latvia that monitored the
> Soviet Union in the 1930s when the United States had no embassy in
> Moscow."
>
>
> Can't do that...surely those Dubai types are a threat to US national
> security?
>

Or it's just intelligence gathering by special ops teams 

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/09/Worldandnation/Special_Ops_teams_put.shtml

By Associated Press
Published March 9, 2006

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military command in charge of counterterrorism
campaigns is putting small teams of special operations troops in U.S.
embassies to support the global war on terror, officials said Wednesday.

The presence of these teams, which began at least two years ago but has not
been publicly announced by U.S. Special Operations Command, was first
reported in Wednesday's editions of the New York Times.

The newspaper said the liaison teams gather intelligence on terrorists.
Whitman would say only that they help provide a regional military commander
with improved "situational awareness," a term generally
synonymous with intelligence.

The Times reported that the liaison teams have been sent to more than a
dozen embassies in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America.

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