{"id":1307,"date":"2006-01-09T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2006-01-09T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T05:51:31","slug":"bomb-defused-at-a-san-francisco-starbucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Bomb defused at a San Francisco Starbucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it may be nothing, it should be noted that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/13586722.htm\">improvised explosive device has been found<\/a> here in the homeland.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A San Francisco Starbucks is closed this afternoon after police defused a bomb placed in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a call reporting a suspicious package at the coffee house, located at 1401 Van Ness Ave., at 1:15 p.m. The police explosives ordinance unit diffused an improvised explosive device, or IED, around 2 p.m., Sgt. Neville Gittens said.<\/p>\n<p>Gittens said he could not comment on the size or type of device found or on its potential explosive capacity. A police investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>A man working at Sushi Bar Wayo next door to Starbucks said police told him there was a pipe bomb in the coffee house and that he needed to evacuate his restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Frias, a sales representative with Ellis Brooks Auto Center, located adjacent to the Starbucks, said a heavy police presence began at around 1 p.m. He said once the bomb squad arrived on scene an hour later, all auto center employees were directed to stand on the other side of the block-long store for about 30 minutes. He said he heard nothing when the IED was defused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Islamist terror?  Doubtful.  Radical far-left terror?  Slightly increased likelihood, though Starbucks, with their overrated and overpriced concoctions, seems to be the Mecca of the home-grown radical.  McDonald&#8217;s would seem the likelier target.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks has issued a generic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/news\/5962064\/detail.html\">statement<\/a> and authorities have made a generic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs5.com\/localwire\/localfsnews\/bcn\/2006\/01\/09\/n\/HeadlineNews\/STARBUCKS-BOMB\/resources_bcn_html\">claim<\/a> of having leads.<\/p>\n<p>Someday soon, Islamist terror will return to our shores.  I just don&#8217;t think this was it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it may be nothing, it should be noted that an improvised explosive device has been found here in the homeland. A San Francisco Starbucks is closed this afternoon after police defused a bomb placed in the bathroom. Police received a call reporting a suspicious package at the coffee house, located at 1401 Van Ness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}