Friday, December 14

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An Icelandic teenager tricked the White House into thinking he was Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.

Vifill Atlason, 16, called the general switchboard number claiming to be the Icelandic leader and asked to speak to President George W Bush.

He was passed around but says he got through to Mr Bush's private secretary and set up a phone meeting with him.

Along the way he says he was asked a series of questions about Mr Grimsson, which he answered using Wikipedia.

"It was like passing through checkpoints, but I had Wikipedia and a few other sites open, so it was not so difficult really," he told ABC News.

Vifill says that among the questions he was asked were Mr Grimsson's date of birth, parent's names, where he grew up and when he took office

BBC NEWS | Americas | Icelandic teen dupes White House

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