http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_coast_guard_sept11]River drill shakes up DC on 9/11 anniversary (AP) [/URL]



AP - A morning of remembrance turned into one of flashbacks, fear and media mishaps Friday when a Coast Guard exercise — unfolding near Pentagon ceremonies marking the Sept. 11, 2001, anniversary — was mistaken as an attack. The false reports of gunfire on the river briefly spooked the capital, sending FBI agents to the scene and grounding flights.