[Scan-DC] Security Efforts Turning Capital Into Armed Camp

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Security Efforts Turning Capital Into Armed Camp
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY

Published: February 22, 2004

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 � An antiaircraft missile, ready for use, sits atop a
federal office building near the White House. Devices that test the air
for chemical and biological substances are positioned throughout the
city. Subway stations are now equipped with "bomb containment" trash
bins. A major highway that runs by the Pentagon is being rerouted several
hundred yards away. A security wall is going up around the Washington
Monument.

Day by day, the nation's capital is becoming a fortress, turning a city
known for graceful beauty into a virtual armed camp. In response to the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, federal security agents along with
their counterparts in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia governments
began a huge effort to build permanent safeguards for the capital area's
most important buildings and monuments.
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