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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper
National Guard troops flooding in as Washington locks down

By ASHRAF KHALIL and LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — All through downtown Washington,
the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of
forklifts unloading more fencing.
There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists
Wednesday, just the occasional jogger and multiple con-
struction crews at work. The U.S. Capitol, which proved
such a soft target last week, was visible only through lines
of tall, black fence.
Two blocks from the White House, a group of uniformed
National Guard troops emerged from a tour bus and
headed into a hotel as a state of lockdown descended
on Washington that will last through the Jan. 20 inau-
guration. The number of National Guard troops coming
to Washington to assist with security has so far grown to
about 21,000, but could increase as law enforcement
agencies review the ongoing threats, officials said Thurs-
day. "Clearly we are in uncharted waters," said Washing-
ton Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Last week's "violent insurrection" at the Capitol by sup-
porters of outgoing President Donald Trump has "impact-
ed the way we are approaching working with our federal
partners in planning for the 59th inauguration," Bowser
said Wednesday. Members of the National Guard walk past the Dome of the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021.
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