Security has never been tighter at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, where finance ministers and central bankers from about 180 countries meet twice a year to discuss the global economy and any threats it faces.

Fences, concrete barricades and massive trucks ringed the IMF and World Bank buildings, which teemed with police and bomb-sniffing dogs. Roads around the buildings, only blocks from the White House, were sealed off to traffic.

Security officers staffed x-ray scanners and checked the identification of every visitor to the building -- from finance ministers to reporters. But the weekend went off without incident.

"Terror has reached our door," James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, declared to shareholder governments on the last day of the meetings.