But the report of the 'bomb' incident in San Francisco was left 'open ended' to create an atmosophere of fear.
THERE IS A HISTORY of violence against "Starbucks" in San Francisco. I kindly refer to the last paragraph. I am not ready to stop going to Starbucks just yet in my neighborhood.
Police defuse bomb at Starbucks on Van Ness
Cicero A. Estrella, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, January 9, 2006
(01-09) 16:55 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- About 100 people were evacuated today and traffic on two busy San Francisco thoroughfares was rerouted after a Starbucks employee found a homemade bomb in a restroom.
The employee found what appeared to be a "suspicious device" inside the unisex bathroom at the Starbucks at Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street around 1:15 p.m. and called police, Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
Gittens would not describe the device or its size other than to say it "would have caused damage if it exploded.''
Don Henschke, sales manager at Ellis Brooks Auto Center across the street from the coffee house, said a police officer had described the bomb to him as "a portion of a flashlight and a fuse."
The bomb squad disabled the device in about 20 minutes, and witnesses said they heard a popping sound at the time.
Traffic on Van Ness and Bush was rerouted for about an hour and people were evacuated from the Starbucks, a neighboring sushi restaurant and a seven-story apartment building above the coffee house.
In 2003, police said the windows of 17 Starbucks were clouded with glue and some of the door locks were jammed. The vandals also posted phony notices purporting to be from Starbucks management announcing the company's intention to abandon some of their San Francisco stores to make room for more locally owned coffee houses.
E-mail Cicero A. Estrella at cestrella@sfchronicle.com. / The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The team then moved to Alito stuff.
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It's easy to make this claim now but as soon as I heard of the major stroke of the Prime Minister and the fact he was on 'blood thinners;' I knew they were related.
This was in Haaretz today.
Early diagnosis could have prevented brain hemorrhage
By Ran Reznick and Tamara Traubman
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received anticoagulant drugs despite suffering from a disease of the blood vessels in the brain which, if diagnosed, would almost certainly have prevented doctors from prescribing these drugs - which are known to increase the risk of strokes and brain hemorrhage. One doctor close to the situation told Haaretz Monday that the disease was diagnosed by doctors treating Sharon at Hadassah University Hospital during his current hospitalization. The disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) could have greatly increased the risk of a brain hemorrhage, following the administration of the medication that he received after his first stroke Dec. 19, Haaretz has learned.
His condition currently:
Doctors: Days before damage from PM's stroke can be assessed
By Tamara Traubman, Ran Reznick and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Physicians at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem treating Ariel Sharon said Monday evening that the prime minister had responded to stimulus and shown slight movement in his right arm and right leg, but warned it could be days before they could assess the full extent of the damage from the massive stroke he suffered last week.
HOPE REMAINS ALIVE.
I think I'll suspend comments there tonight.
