By Alorie Gilbert, 11 September 2003 08:20
NEWS Responding to a bomb threat, software maker Oracle ordered thousands of attendees at its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco to evacuate the Moscone convention centre yesterday. The venue notified the San Francisco Police Department of a bomb threat that targeted the centre at 13:20(PDT), said Isabel Crowell, an SFPD spokeswoman. The centre said it had received multiple threatening calls. About two dozen police officers arrived at the centre, and Oracle ordered the evacuation of the building shortly afterwards. The police said they found no bombs after hours of searching and began allowing people back into the centre at about 16:00(PDT). Oracle told the SFPD that as many as 11,000 people were at the conference, according to one officer. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the threat, according to police. The Moscone Center, the SFPD and a Bay Area FBI office all received threatening calls about it. Speaking yesterday Crowell said: "Especially with the anniversary of [the 11 September terrorist attacks] tomorrow, we kind of expected these things to happen." Alorie Gilbert writes for News.com
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