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Old 17th Sep 2013, 07:11
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Perhaps if the Dutch had followed the Swedish model....

Business | Assertive Swedes Play Tough Guy In Bosnia -- Most U.N. Troops Use Other Tactics | Seattle Times Newspaper

U.N. troops routinely spend days negotiating with Bosnian factions for rights of passage for aid convoys.
[Colonel Ulf Hendricsson, commander of the U.N. Nordic battalion in central Bosnia] has a different approach.
"I have come to checkpoints where the soldiers refuse to remove the mines blocking our way," he said. "I've told the soldiers if they don't move the mines we'll blow their heads off. We've always gotten through."
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