Show Standard-Examin- Wednesday er August 8 1990 3A Iraqi Invasion 39 Officials say Morocco pact troop deny Egypt Americans held The Associated Press President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt today denied US reports that his country has agreed to send troops to join the multinational force to defend Saudi Ara- bia and other threatened states in the Middle East Mubarak made the comment in a nationally televised speech in which he did not rule out sending Egyptian troops as part of an Arab force Earlier today Britain x' v- de-ni- ed ed st S PLj ' vV: White House won't call them By LIZ SLY Chicago Tribune Hafr CTabuk AI an- - nounced it would join the multinational military effort to help prevent Iraq from expanding its invasion US officials in Washington speaking on condition of ano- nymity had said on Tuesday that and Morocco close allies it Egypt of the United States had agreed - to send troops to join the US-- " led multinational force But both countries today those reports The question of Egypt's and Morocco's participation in the force is important because Saudi Arabia reportedly has insisted that other Arab nations join with the United States in sending troops to counter Iraq Egypt has a large arsenal of weapons and is the et second-largerecipient of US economic and military aid — - currently receiving $23 billion a year Since 1981 the United States has conducted biannual joint maneuvers with Egypt But Mubarak said intervention by foreign troops could worsen ' the crisis which began Thursday w hen tens of thousands of Iraqi troops overran Kuwait then US-suppli- v Jaba Saudi Arabia Wajh 0 vr ttit EaS jYanbu dah M 05 £H£ i Persian Gulf 3 P CKhamis Mushayt Yemen i y So jfee: International Institute ““T Qibouti Studies Swap LJ SomaHa 1939-8- 0 APStendard-Exansns- massed along the Saudi border “We have no troops there (in Saudi Arabia) We are not preparing troops and there is no talk about this" Mubarak said “But if we are asked to participate with Arab troops I do not think Egypt would refuse" he Navy Air Force r grmptsc Don’t think that the fleets are just going to sit there sleeping” Mubarak said of naval forces being sent to the region by the United States France and Britain Morocco also indicated today that it was not willing to join the multinational force The official Moroccan news agency MAP quoted an official source as saying “We deny all military participation” in the force Morocco’s King Hassan II receives millions of dollars a year in US military aid The modere ate Arab country has tanks better than having a solution forced on us by foreign powers” outside the Egyptian leader said Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported that Saudi Arabia Algeria Libya Tunis Morocco Jordan Oman Yemen and Syria had agreed to attend the summit There were no desaid tails on when the proposed suman Mubarak called for emergenmit would be held 24 hours within Arab summit cy Mubarak said he had no perand offered to hold it in Egypt sonal Kuinvaded knowledge that foreign Shortly before Iraq wait Mubarak had tried to ease powers would strike Iraq but said he feared such an attack was tensions between the two counhad he coming tries and had thought “I have told our brothers in succeeded sumArab “I call for an urgent Iraq I am afraid that Iraq will be mit within 24 hours It would be struck by a harsh strike from the US-mad- WASHINGTON — Thirty-nin- e Americans are under Iraqi guard at a Baghdad hotel US officials said Tuesday fueling concerns that they could be used as bargaining chips in the crisis unfolding in the Middle EasL Administration officials refused to describe the Americans as hostages but did say the group is not free to leave the hotel “We'd prefer not to give it a label at this time but suffice to say’ they are not able to leave” said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater So far the Iraqis have “not adequately" explained why the Americans are not free to leave the hotel said State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler “If these people were free to go those who chose to I have to assume would be leaving" she said However she added “it would be premature to call these individuals 'hostages' ” Those being held at the Rashid Hotel include 25 passengers from a British Airways flight from London to India who were trapped in Kuwait during a scheduled stopover when the Iraqis invaded last week Kuwait’s airport has since been closed The flight’s 366 passengers who had been staying in Kuwait hotels were rounded up by Iraqi troops Monday and transported to Baghdad aboard buses 1 hostages' Among them is a 1 West Coast girl Penelope Nabokov who was traveling unaccom- panied on the flight her father Peter told CBS News The State Department would not release the identities of other passengers Other Americans being held at the hotel include 1 oil workers taken from Kuwait to Iraq during the invasion and three unidentified Americans who were with the passengers in Kuwait the State Department said US Embassy officials in Baghdad who have been able to visit some of the Americans in the hotel reported they “appear to be in good shape” Tutwiler said The w ife of one American oil worker Marjorie Raynard of Jacksboro Texas said the State Department told her Tuesday that he was being allowed to use 1 hotel facilities “They've evidently been confined to their rooms but now they said they can leave the rooms and go to the restaurant" she said She said the State Department also told her that Iraqi soldiers had been surrounding the hotel since her husband arrived thfcre last week The US charge d’affairs in Baghdad Joseph Wilson has been meeting with Iraqi officials to try to arrange the departure of all Americans there Tutwiler said Jesse Jackson might mediate Kuwait crisis Boston Globe J "CAMBRIDGE Mass — A brother of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is expected to meet today -- with the Rev Jesse Jackson to discuss the invasion of Kuwait and whether Jackson could medicate in the crisis Jackson who has involved himself in Middle Eastern issues ‘before “is a friend of everybody on both sides" of the dispute a spokesman for Prince Turki bin Abdul-Azi- z al Saud said Tuesday has bad feelings about “Nobody him Everybody accepts him as a friend and respects him" said the spokesman Mustafa Aziz a po- litical adviser to the prince No time for Wednesday’s meeting had been set by late Tuesday May Louie an assistant to Jack-so- n at his Rainbow Coalition of--1 fice in Washington said Jackson had told her that the Saudis were asking for the meeting and that “we are trying to meet with them if it can be worked out" She said speculation that the prince wants to discuss a possible negotiating role with the former presidential candidate “would be premature” Jackson spent most of Tuesday in Washington meeting with the US secretary of health and human services Louis W Sullivan Jr and could not be reached In January 1984 Jackson went to Syria and negotiated the release of Lt Robert O Goodman Jr a Navy pilot who was on 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