BREAKING NEWS: BIRMINGHAM (ENGLAND) CITY CENTRE BEING EVACUATED

[Big Bad Bob]

BBC Five Live are reporting that Birmingham city centre is being evacuated after an security alert. More soon.

[sofaman]

I guess it's because this is so unusual that I'm suspicious..it's totally out of character for the media to behave this way...(putting on tinfoil hat again)

[Peach]

They said that police sourced told them that. But I think CNN is lying.

There's no way law enforcement evacuated 20-30,000 people, blew up at least one item, and it's not related to terrorism.

[di_canio_volley]

I would suspect the reason for the evacuation lies between these two possibilities:

At one end of the scale , perhaps a there was a threat to an (unspecified) pub or nightclub, a scenario which could kill hundereds inside the premises and injure a large number of people in the immediate surrounding area (as with the Bali bomb). If the actual pub or nightcub is not specified in the threat,then there would be no alternative than to evacuate the whole area.

At the other end of the scale, there would be the chemical or dirty bomb scenario. Perhaps this is less likely - if they possess such a thing, why didn't they use this on London on Thursday? (God forbid)

[NO_2_CORZINE]

Not after the recent NYT press debacle.

[stripes1776]

Oh somethings will change. Soon there'll be enogh of them to make up a large enough voting bloc and then they can start voting in Islamic representatives within the government. Shouldn't be too long.

Yes, I think you see what is coming with clarity.

[livius]

Keep us posted!

[Samwise]

I can't believe that nothing has leaked yet. Everything leaks.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Islamic terrorists are not the only terrorists that do things in the UK...don't forget the IRA...

[softwarecreator]

"Police tell us that what is happening in Birgminham have nothing to do with 7/7 attacks."

Oh, of course not.  Maybe Manchester United is playing in town and they are clearing the area in case of "hooligans".

How dumb do they think we are?  Never mind, don't answer that, I already know the answer.

[Samwise]

Calling from Seattle. Who is that?

[dc27]

Hey, who's the freeper from Seattle that is calling to the radio station in England????

[angelwings49]

FREEPER ON BRMB!!!

[sofaman]

Hey..who was that on BRMB? C'mon fess up...

[NO_2_CORZINE]

why didn't they use this on London on Thursday?...
Two Days of attacks causes more panic than just one day. One day followed by no attacks gives a greater sense of security. If they do it twice its the "Well they did it twice cant be that hard to do again"

[feedback doctor]

A Freeper from Seattle is on!

[TomGuy]

FReeper from Seattle calling in, talking on BRMB.

Mentioned allot of us are 'watching' and 'listening' about the situation in Birmingham on Free Republic.

[ShellieGOP]

Someone from FreeRepublic just called into the radio station we're listening to...pretty neat. :)

[Samwise]

Who is that on the radio?

[AFPhys]

What is going on is that people have left the city center, and gone home to sleep. I'm going to do the same now, too.

[SeaBiscuit]

Yes I too think CNN is full of it. What I meant about 'how could they know that', is how could the police even determine that so quickly. Sounds more like CNN took the liberty of some off the cuff statement and portrayed it as fact.