Bulgarian soldiers chat at their base in the town of Kazanlak, some 250 km (155 miles) east of the capital Sofia, prior to the official ceremony before their departure to Iraq, March 29, 2006. Earlier this year the country's Socialist-led government agreed to deploy a unit of 120 lightly armed soldiers plus support staff to guard a camp of mainly Iranian refugees in Ashraf, about 70 km (40miles) north of Baghdad. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov