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| Birmingham UK evacuated: "controlled explosions" | |
| 2005-07-09 | |
On Fox News TV 2:44PM PST - nothing on the webpage yet
British Evacuate Birmingham District Police ordered the evacuation of the entertainment district in central Birmingham late Saturday because of intelligence suggesting a security threat. Police initially restricted road traffic into the city center, but then ordered an evacuation after receiving further intelligence, a police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity. She estimated there were nearly 200 bars and clubs in the Broad Street entertainment district. Birmingham, 110 miles northwest of London, was the target of one of the worst Irish Republican Army bombings of the 1970s. Twenty-one people died when the IRA bombed two pubs on Nov. 21, 1974. | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #14 muzzy asskicking,...count me in. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-07-09 23:31 |
| #13 at our best, I bet we'd do a disservice to the "soccer hooligans". |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-09 21:47 |
| #12 f&*king A |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-09 21:46 |
| #11 i volunteer to beat one then frank you with me? |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-07-09 21:43 |
| #10 that's why every beating of a "jihadi-spouting" Imam need not lead to actual peace. It's the fear that it creates that justifies it...heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-09 21:27 |
| #9 That is why one reason it's called terrorism, not every act need be real one, just the fear it creates in the public will do, picking the UK is a bad plan for that, it hasn't worked in the past, won't now. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-07-09 20:26 |
| #8 Its not a false alarm, its certainly a deliberate hoax. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-09 20:22 |
| #7 Likely as not just a false alarm stemming from the heightened caution following the London bombings. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-07-09 20:18 |
| #6 BBC now reporting 4 controlled explosions, but no bombs. Looks like an elaborate hoax - packages deliberately left. Or a trial run? |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-09 20:14 |
| #5 How's this for a campaign slogan: "Muslims Out Now!" I think we're going to see the BNP use that one next election and it's likely to be damned effective. |
| Posted by: mac 2005-07-09 18:39 |
| #4 Foto's http://www.flickr.com/photos/jabbarman/24750958/ |
| Posted by: Dutchgeek 2005-07-09 17:59 |
| #3 I dearly hope a few of the former members of the Finsbury Park mosque were strapped to those "controlled explosions". Hey! That's how the moderates can show their moderation -- volunteer the extremists for bomb disposal duty! |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-09 17:54 |
| #2 30,000 evacuated from a half-sq mile area - entertainment district - around Broad St. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-09 17:45 |
| #1 SKY News, BBC, Debka have the story.... |
| Posted by: Dutchgeek 2005-07-09 17:41 |