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Date Posted: 20:18:34 06/19/02 Wed
Author: gmike
Subject: White House Briefly Evacuated

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House was briefly evacuated Wednesday night after an unidentified aircraft was spotted circling in the restricted airspace over the executive mansion.

The evacuation was ordered just after President Bush ( news - web sites) returned to the building from a Republican fund-raising event at the Washington Convention Center.

A senior law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a plane headed toward Reagan National Airport had not made radio contact with the control towers, and as a precaution the White House was evacuated. The plane then changed direction, prompting the Secret Service ( news - web sites) to end the evacuation.

Within 15 minutes of the evacuation, staff was allowed to return to the building. At the time of the all-clear, there still had been no contact with the plane; its destination and what kind of plane it was remained unclear.

It was the first evacuation of the White House since Sept. 11, when the building was thought to be a target of one of the hijacked jetliners used in the attack on New York and Washington.

The evacuation occurred just hours after a separate incident in which the nearby Federal Reserve ( news - web sites) building was evacuated because of a suspicious package, which turned out to be harmless.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020620/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_evacuation_5

Security has been improve since 9/11 LOL.

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Well, at least for themselves, they've improved (NT) -- Cari, 20:47:16 06/19/02 Wed
- Test -- exie, 22:10:54 06/19/02 Wed
And they didn't actually evacuate the Press they moved them -- zazoo, 22:59:03 06/19/02 Wed