{"id":2215,"date":"2005-07-09T21:40:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T04:40:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-09T21:40:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T04:40:40","slug":"birmingham-city-center-evacuated-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/09\/birmingham-city-center-evacuated-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Center Evacuated: &#8216;Security Threat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the London drama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-5130109,00.html\">not over<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/4668313.stm\">BBC reports<\/a> &#8220;there have also been reports of controlled explosions by police.&#8221; Initially, pubs and restaurants were being searched, and motorists were told not to come into the city center: now, it&#8217;s evacuation time &#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up? Stay tuned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the London drama is not over: &#8220;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.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}