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Peaceful Iceland Amazed at Weapons in Pence Security Detail

Associated Press

   KEFLAVIK AIRPORT, ICELAND - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's arrival in
   Iceland with military jets and armed personnel set eyes popping
   Wednesday in a nation consistently ranked as the world's most peaceful.
   The size and standards of the vice president's security detail also
   required adjustments. The guards protecting Pence got backup from a
   police force that only allows elite "Viking SWAT" members carry guns.
   Icelandic authorities gave U.S. personnel special permission to carry
   firearms. Bomb-sniffing dogs were cleared to enter the country because
   of a strict quarantine for imported animals.

   Pence is the first U.S. vice president to visit Iceland, a country of
   just 350,000 people, since George H.W. Bush came to Reykjavik in 1983.

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