Did Iceland Teen Call Secret White House Phone?

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Did Iceland Teen Call Secret White House Phone?

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The WH said it was only the switchboard phone, but the police showed up at his home and questioned him for several hours saying they were under orders from U.S. to find the leak. They were threatening to put him on no-fly list. His mom said the kid has become a hero in Iceland because bUsh is so unpopular. Laughing

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Source: ABC News

When Vífill Atlason, a 16-year-old high school student from Iceland, decided to call the White House, he could not imagine the kind of publicity it would bring.

Introducing himself as Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the actual president of Iceland, Atlason found President George W. Bush's allegedly secret telephone number and phoned, requesting a private meeting with him.

"I just wanted to talk to him, have a chat, invite him to Iceland and see what he'd say," Vífill told ABC News.

A White House official, who asked not to be identified, denied the young man had accessed a private number but instead dialled 202-456-1414, the main switchboard for the West Wing.

Vífill's mother, Harpa Hreinsdottir, a teacher at the local high school, said her son did, in fact, get through to a private phone.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id ... 925&page=1
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