(AFP/Hindustan Times) - Kuwait has deployed 10 U.S. Patriot missile batteries in case of Iraqi attack, the emirate's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said on Wednesday. "The situation is not normal and recent military deployments have caused certain worries in Kuwait...so the country has taken delivery of 10 Patriot missile batteries, whereas Israel only has four," he said, quoted by the state's KUNA news agency. The government is also planning the distribution of gas masks "very soon" to nationals and expatriates, he added. U.S., German, and Czech military personnel deployed in Kuwait finished on Wednesday a two-day exercise focused on helping the emirate respond to biological or chemical attack.
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