Bulgarian Troops Refuse to Go to Iraq in The Guardian.
More than two dozen Bulgarian soldiers are refusing deployment in Iraq, following the deaths of five countrymen in an attack in the Mideast country, a senior military official said Friday.
Between 25 and 30 soldiers of the second Bulgarian contingent, due to leave for Iraq in early January to replace the troops there now, have decided not to go on the mission, said Gen. Nikolai Kolev, the army chief of staff. The withdrawals would not affect Bulgaria's mission in Iraq, he added.
The troops who withdrew will have to refund the costs of their training and medical examinations, Kolev said.
This is, of course, to be juxtaposed with the egregious Pentagon policy to use stop-loss to illegally draft reservists, as detailed in WaPo.