About 10 Bulgarian soldiers ask to leave Iraq

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How do you say "I'm outta here" in Bulgarian?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13259411.htm

SOFIA, April 13 (Reuters) - About 10 Bulgarian soldiers based in the flashpoint city of Kerbala in southern Iraq have asked if they can go home, officials said on Tuesday, the latest example of the troops' unhappiness with conditions in Iraq.

On Monday, soldiers' parents appealed to President Georgi Parvanov to have Bulgaria's 450-strong battalion withdrawn from the city, where it came under repeated attack last week from militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

"Around 10 servicemen of the Bulgarian contingent in Kerbala have asked to be relieved," defence ministry spokeswoman Roumyana Strugarova said. snip

More than 60 soldiers quit the battalion before it left home for Iraq to replace the original peacekeeping unit, although the government had increased the troops' Iraq pay by about one-third because of the risks of serving there.

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1. Can you blame them?

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2. the correct number is 16 I believe

Just saw it in the news.

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3. Sometimes you just need your mom (no matter how old you are).

I hope they all get to go home!