Troops `invade' wrong country

Stockholm - With their field packs, camouflage uniforms and weapons, the 116-member elite Italian military unit was ready for anything except, perhaps, map reading. The heavily armed Alpini, as Italy's elite alpine corps is called, hit the ground in neutral Sweden instead of in NATO member Norway, where they were supposed to join the Co-operative Banners exercise. The soldiers did not know they were in Sweden until immigration officials pointed out the navigational error.