Word: kuwait
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When I arrived back at my hotel in Kuwait I was told I had to do a live interview immediately with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. I was so overcome with emotion that I had to steady myself before answering his questions about the missile attack and the Devil Docs. At the end of the interview, he told me and all the viewers that I needed a shower because I didn't smell very good. For the first time in a long while, I smiled. I was now a war correspondent...
Military officials say the Pentagon may put off an all-out ground assault on Baghdad until the Army can deploy 20,000 more troops from the 4th Infantry Division--who left Fort Hood, Texas, for Kuwait this week--to the front lines to reinforce the two forces already in place. As it regroups on the ground, the U.S. plans to ratchet up the pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions...
Lory Manning, director of the Women in the Military project at the Washington-based Women's Research and Education Institute, wonders what women serving so ably in Kuwait and Iraq will do if they are pulled back from the front lines. "I hate to think their thank-you is 'Sorry, girls, you can't do this anymore,'" she says...
Like so many of the soldiers he accompanies, Morris left behind a family when he embarked for Kuwait. He and his wife have two daughters, the younger one born just a week before he left. Now he is embedded with the 3rd Brigade of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it heads north through a mixture of sandstorms and rain that sometimes leaves his cameras caked with a cement-like coating that he has to chip away bit by bit. "Most of these soldiers have never seen combat," says Morris, who has covered many wars in his 20-year...
...News, BBC, the local station and Iraqi TV. They especially enjoyed the female anchor on Fox, with her short skirt." At sgtstryker.com the mother of a female Marine posts excerpts from her daughter's e-mails. And at chinpokomon.com Naval Lieut. Commander Kevin Mickey, stationed at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, posts droll photos and strong opinions about what should be done to Iraqis who execute U.S. POWs...