[Rhodes22-list] No One Is Safe Anymore

[Robert Skinner]

Thanks for that piece.
Brings to mind "The Mouse That Roared"
Classic Peter Sellers
/Robert

Brad Haslett wrote:
> 
> 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.
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