Rumsfeld cuts Berlin press conference short because of WW2 bomb

[Kellanved]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin's Tegel airport was temporarily closed on Wednesday to allow the controlled explosion of a 1,000-pound (454 kg) U.S. World War Two bomb unearthed during construction work, police said.

A flight carrying U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in the German capital for a NATO defense ministers' meeting, took off from Tegel shortly before the airport was closed, U.S. officials said.

Takeoffs and landings at the airport, one of Germany's busiest, were suspended for about an hour, an adjacent highway was closed, trains on a nearby subway line were halted and local people evacuated from the area, police said.

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[MrScorpio]

1. They found a lot of bombs like this when I was in Germany

Plus we ere told to not walk in the wooded areas becuase of the same thing

They bombed Bitburg to smithereens, back in the day