You're bang on, maxburner: the lack of coverage of RAF ops in the Gulf is not down to a lack of interest from the media - every request to visit Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey is stonewalled by Northwood, usually on the basis of "host nation sensitivity". I can understand this when you read all the gung-ho crap in the tabloids, but specialist defence media get the same treatment too.
Hadn't you heard, it's all secret!