Kuwait willing to take extra troops

KUWAIT said yesterday it would accept US troops who had been intended to be deployed in Turkey after the Turkish parliament refused to allow them into the country, the Kuwaiti defense minister said.

“If they (United States) present a formal request, we are willing,” Defence Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Hamad al-Sabah told reporters.

Kuwait said it has not received a request to host 62,000 US troops rejected by Turkey, adding any such request would have to be studied by the emirate’s political leadership.