Work goes on near the West Wing of the White House. The four-year project will cost $86 million and the front yard at 1600 Pennsylvania will remain a noisy building site.

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The West Wing of the White House is all-but disappearing behind an $86 million building project that is going to last for four years, the Daily Mail reports.

And a mysterious tunnel is being built, fueling speculation that a secret underground lair is what's really under construction.

The White House already has a number of tunnels; the exact number is, of course, classified.

The most well known is the underground corridor that leads to the President's Emergency Operations Center, a supposedly nuclear-proof bunker located six stories under the East Wing.

It was from this bunker and its adjacent Executive Briefing Room that Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, among others, directed government operations on Sept. 11, 2001.

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白宮密建“末日地堡”

???????據英國《每日郵報》報道，未來4年，美國白宮西翼大樓將暫時從人們視線中“消失”。

???????白宮正在耗資8600萬美元大興土木，在白宮西翼大樓附近挖掘地道，有傳聞稱，白宮實際上是在秘密修建一個大型“末日地堡”。

???????事實上，白宮已經有了數條地道，當然具體有幾條屬于機密。

???????其中，最廣為人知的是通向白宮“總統緊急行動中心”的那條地下走廊，它位于白宮東翼地下6層，是一個足以防范原子彈爆炸的地堡。

???????2001年9月11日，當世貿雙塔遭遇恐怖襲擊之后，當時的美國副總統迪克·切尼、前美國國務卿康多莉扎·賴斯等白宮高官正是潛入了這個地堡，在那里指揮政府運作。

(China.org.cn April 11, 2011)