European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims and stripes vol. 53, no. 178 wednesday october 12,1994 d 8693 a Iraq claim disputed As crisis7 continues Kuwait City a Iraq insisted tuesday that most of its troops have pulled Back from the kuwaiti Border but the United states and Britain said they still perceived a threat to Kuwait an sent More troops and military hardware to the volatile persian Gulf Baghdad reported tuesday that it has finished withdrawing its elite Republican guard and other army units from the kuwaiti Border which iraqi forces smashed through in their 1990 invasion of the Emi rate. . Officials said that some iraqi units were moving from their combat positions but that a considerable Force still remained uncomfortably near the kuwaiti Border. Army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said Iraq s Force smaller but still lethal most countries have yet to unite with . Army leaders get to test rapid deployment tuesday that the iraqi deployment to Ward the kuwaiti Border was t just some innocent exercise that they were on and we misread it. Far far from it. I m not at All prepared to say the crisis is Over in any Way. The iraqi foreign minister said Only two brigades an estimated 8,000 men remained deployed North of the Bor Der and will be withdrawn soon. But iraqi troops and military equip ment were moving South toward the Bor Der As Well As North journalists in Ira said. Ai. Iraq s claims of a troop pullback have been called into question since iraqi officials first made them monday. President Linton said earlier tuesday that there was no sign a withdrawal was in Progress an that Western deployments would continue. There has been no change in the Pat Tern of iraqi activity from yesterday so we will continue our deployment Clin see Iraq on Page 4 a Tamarah Iraq massing troops military sources say Saddam Hussein is again mobilizing forces along the Border with Kuwait. President Clinton has ordered 54,000 .troops to the Region and put another 15,000 on Alert. Iran Iraq j Kuwait aps a members of the 24th inf div Mech prepare monday to Board a plane at Hunter army Airfield in Savannah ga., that will take them to Kuwait. An army spokesman said that600 troops from the division had been flown to the Middle Eastern country since monday and that 3,200 More soldiers were in route. European units alerted for possible Mideast duty Bymark Kinkade and Kevin Dougherty staff writers the Pentagon has told . Air Force fighter units in Europe to be prepared for deployment to the Middle East. . Army Gen. George a. Joulwan commander of the . European come ordered his f-15e and f-16 fighter unit commanders in Europe to begin preparing for a Short notice deployment after defense Secretary William Perry gave formal notice monday afternoon said a command spokesman cmdr. Ron Morse. Morse said the formal notification is not an order to deploy the fighters. It allows unit commanders to Start doing the things they have to do should they have to deploy on Short notice Morse said. So far the Pentagon has not identified which units would be sent to the Middle East in response to the iraqi buildup on the kuwaiti Border. Although Perry instructed the command to prepare f-15and f-16 units no specific numbers of aircraft or service members have been see Mideast on Page 4 prison life hard time gets harder death Row and the Rich seepage 16-17 inside Topay computer glitches Sii re merchants researchers in ., Germany win Nobel prize in economics sea Page 10 Woody Allen threatens revenge on the big screen see Page 20