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Car explodes in central Birmingham

John | 04.11.2001 01:54 | Birmingham

A car exploded at 22:30 this evening in Birmingham city centre, according to Sky News. A bomb threat, which was not acted upon, was phoned in by "the Irish dissident group" according to a Birmingham police spokesperson, causing no injuries. The public was advised that it is in no way related to the events of September 11th.

A car exploded at 22:30 this evening in Birmingham city centre, according to Sky News. A bomb threat, which was not acted upon, was phoned in by "the Irish dissident group" according to a Birmingham police spokesperson, causing no injuries.
The public was advised that it is in no way related to the events of September 11th.

John

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seems everyone is all so ready to blame

04.11.2001 02:37

I am a peaceful person and do not support violence of any description but it seems that whenever something happens which cannot be quickly explained as the above incident ...there is always someone willing to alledge as to where the responsiblity rests
It is always placed at the foot of irish republicans ....are they the only people right now that the british governemt can find on blaming when they have a whole war against terrorism going with the US they are going to concentrate on a small group of republicans who disagree with the agreement ....were is the slamming of anti unionists they are not being victimised even though their guns are not silent ..........

irishgirl

AGAIN

04.11.2001 12:55

Again we are bombarded with news that an explosive device has went of and who better to blame than dissident republicans who have actually bore the brunt of the ira destruction of weapons ........
the so named dissidents are anti agreement as are the anti agreement unionists who are still shooting and maiming where are the stories of them on this independant media centre.............none.

As we are continually subjected by the forces of a British state and their co conspirators let us not forget that we should not always believe what we read..........

irishgirl

Inside Job

04.11.2001 18:12

Just when the Israelis and Palestinians are on the brink of a historic 'peace deal' a sudden bus bomb or assasination scuppers the signing. Whenever the Irish are on the brink of a major peace agreement, a bomb blast or atrocity, scuppers the deal. Too coincidental and convenient to be true.

MI6

Outside job

04.11.2001 19:04

Don't delude yourself. The UK Govt. would dearly love to have the NI issue solved. Apart from anything else, it would save a great deal of money. Given the number of bombs exploded by Irish republicans, it is not difficult to realise where this one came from.

sceptic

Peace process

04.11.2001 21:16

Why would the UK Govt wish to derail the peace process? It is in the Govt's bets interests for there to be peace in NI. And given the number of bombs planted previously by NI Republicans in the UK, it is a fair bet that this is another.