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	WW2 bomb found at museum near Merkel's flat.......

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4-25-2009 5:10 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad67534d-3d76-42df-8f7b-bfeee05954a9/C0DA91B9-E6ED-4F3A-AA86-49D159163B6B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html">An unexploded World War Two-era bomb weighing 100 kg was discovered on Friday by construction workers near Berlin's Neues Museum and police evacuated a surrounding area that includes Chancellor Angela Merkel's flat.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html">The museums in the eastern section of central Berlin are being renovated. Merkel lives in a flat across the street.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html">"The chancellor's flat is indeed located within the evacuation zone,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html"><P>"If she's at home, she'll have to vacate the building. And if she's not home, she will not be allowed to drive into the area.</P><P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uk.news.yahoo.com/img/CCEE5001-F532-4938-9055-D76F7BBE89BF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html"><P>The <A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/russia.html">Russian</A> bomb that has likely been submerged since the closing days of World War Two was discovered at about 5:40 p.m. (1540 GMT). Rail lines and streets nearby would also be shut down when the defusal experts move in, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html"><P>An estimated 10 to 20 percent of the Allied bombs that were dropped on German targets during World War Two failed to detonate.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html">Many were found and destroyed immediately</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html">thousands were only discovered decades later </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090425/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-museum-bomb-1a5e080.html"> by construction workers.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0DA91B9-E6ED-4F3A-AA86-49D159163B6B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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