Security tightened before Obama´s inauguration

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Source: CCTV.com | 01-19-2009 10:07

The US capital, meanwhile, is going all out to prepare for the inauguration of Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the nation's first black president on Tuesday.

Secret Service agents provide security for U.S. President- elect Barack Obama from the top of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington January 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young

Already, Washington has seen four days of parties, shadowed at every turn by layer upon layer of extra security. Revellers eager to get a head start on the celebrations are already in town.

The FBI has been planning for the inauguration since June. Specially equipped trucks, a bomb-detecting robot, canisters with hundreds of gallons of water ready to disrupt a car bomb, and other emergency response tools have been set up near the FBI's Washington field office.

However, a special agent in charge of counter-terrorism says there has been no credible intelligence warning of any attack.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei