Airwave War: Radio Kuwait

Radio Kuwait has been on the air since shortly after Saddam Hussein’s forces stormed the emirate on Aug. 2. Initially, it operated in Kuwait, but it has moved to safer, secret surroundings under heavy guard in eastern Saudia Arabia. A government-sponsored operation, Radio Kuwait provides NEWS, COMMENTARY, MUSIC AND PRAYER to the 350,000 Kuwaitis who remain in the emirate after 400,000 fled. Since its first days, the station has been in an airwave war with Baghdad. Iraqi forces managed to jam broadcasts with a transmission station near Kuwait city. That jamming station was destroyed by allied planes. The Kuwaiti station is staffed by three dozen people, all of whom had worked in radio or television in Kuwait.