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WASHINGTON | Tue Dec 1, 2009 1:33pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Secret Service on Tuesday removed a suspicious package left near the White House complex and a few nearby streets that had been closed while they investigated the scene were reopened.

The Secret Service removed the package, a briefcase, from 15th Street and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. which is near the U.S. Treasury Department and a block from the White House, according to a Reuters photographer at the scene.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Patricia Zengerle and Jason Reed, Editing by Sandra Maler)
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