KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait will not accept to serve as a launching pad for a U.S. attack on former occupier Iraq, a Kuwaiti minister said in remarks published Friday. "The mission of U.S. troops deployed in Kuwait is well known... It is to defend our land and national sovereignty... Kuwait does not agree to an attack on Iraq being launched from its territory," Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah told the daily ***Al-Rai al-Aam***. "There is no truth to press reports that Washington has concluded intensive negotiations with Kuwait about using its territory and airspace to carry...
