| One thing is certain: The war on Iraq wonât start before this weekend. The âembedâ journalists have not been issued their gas masks, and the Pentagon has told its US headquarters in Kuwait that embedding journalists is a âno goâ until the gas masks arrive. The masks are due to arrive here by the end of the week. If anything happened, all these soon-to-be-embedded journalists would miss it. The gas masks are stuck back in North Carolina. Apparently delayed due to bad weather, they are to get here by Friday. Here at the Kuwait Hilton, the journalistsâ measurements for protective NBC (nuclear, biological, or chemical) suits have been taken, and military-issued IDs with photo are waiting. But the journalists will get nothing until itâs official, and itâs not official until they get their masks. |