[Rhodes22-list] No One Is Safe Anymore

[Brad Haslett]

Just stumbled across this news item.  Rumor has it that France is
negotiating a surrender.  Brad

 Swiss Troops Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein

*Friday , March 02, 2007*

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ZURICH, Switzerland  —
What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing
diplomatic incident after a company of *Swiss
soldiers*<javascript:siteSearch('Swiss soldiers');>got lost at night
and marched into neighboring
*Liechtenstein* <javascript:siteSearch('Liechtenstein');>.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers from the neutral
country wandered more than a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny *
principality* <javascript:siteSearch('principality');> early Thursday before
realizing their mistake and turning back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story, but said that there were
unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

"We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem,"
Daniel Reist told The Associated Press on Friday.

Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.

Interior Ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had
even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no
ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or
something," he said.

Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller
than Washington, D.C., does not have an army.