Protester removed from speech

WASHINGTON -- Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the antiwar movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery last night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Sheehan, who had been invited to attend the speech by Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of California, was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor, said Capitol Police Sergeant Kimberly Schneider. Sheehan was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters a few blocks away and her case was processed as Bush spoke.