Danish forces in Iraq armed with snow shovels

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Danish forces in Iraq armed with snow shovels

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B657387.htm

COPENHAGEN, July 10 (Reuters) - Danish security forces in Iraq, struggling with temperatures of around 50 degrees Celsius (122 F), are prepared for the worst -- even a blizzard.

The almost 400 soldiers from the chilly Nordic are equipped with snow shovels, brooms and a lawnmower as they work to restore law and order in the war-torn country.

"It's all part of a standard camp equipment," Jess Rasmussen from the Danish Army Operational Command's materiel section told Reuters.

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Thu Jul-10-03 07:57 AM
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1. Waiting for it to snow in "hell?" n/t

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