REWARD SET IN AFGHAN EATERY FIRE.Byline: - Orith Goldberg Fire officials Thursday offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for setting a fire Sept. 17 at a restaurant serving Afghan cuisine Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. . Investigators have no evidence at this point to prove the early-morning fire set at the Restaurant Golestan was a bigotry-based hate crime, but they said the owner has been concerned it was a reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering . The fire is believed to have been set with an incendiary device a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb. See also: Incendiary , officials said. ``Investigators came to us and felt (a reward) would assist in getting information on this,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski's field deputy, Sharon Sandow. Police were at a back parking lot near the restaurant after fire officials' press conference to investigate a suspicious container of fluid behind a Jiffy A fraction of time that has numerous interpretations depending on who uses it. It may refer to one computer clock cycle, one nanosecond, one millisecond or one AC power cycle. There may be others. See nanosecond. 1. Lube. Officers determined that it posed no danger. ``It turns out it was nothing at all,'' said Sgt. Gregory Renner of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Valley Division. ``It could have been used transmission fluid.'' Although the Restaurant Golestan was not destroyed in the fire, it remained closed Thursday morning. The 1:40 a.m. fire, under investigation by the FBI as well as the city Fire Department, left the structure sound, but destroyed the furnishings furnishings the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers. , officials said. The roof needs repair inside. Officials estimated structure and content losses each at $15,000. |
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