{"id":5505,"date":"2011-09-19T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/seven-arrested-in-birmingham-anti-terror-raids\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:03:29","slug":"seven-arrested-in-birmingham-anti-terror-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/seven-arrested-in-birmingham-anti-terror-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrested in Birmingham anti-terror raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Six men, one woman detained following raids across the city<\/h3>\n<div><strong>POLICE in Birmingham have arrested seven people in anti-terror raids across Birmingham.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Six men, and one woman, were detained overnight as part of a large pre-planned, intelligence-led counter terrorism operation.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>West Midlands Police say the men were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The woman, 22, from Saltley, was arrested on suspicion of failing to disclose information contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The men, aged between 25 and 32, were from the Moseley, Sparkbrook, Balsall Heath and Sparkhill areas of the city. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Searches are now being conducted by specialist teams at these and seven other properties in the city &#8211; six domestic and one commercial.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Marcus Beale, Assistant chief constable of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: &#8220;The operation is in its early stages so we are unable to go into detail at this time about the nature of the suspected offences.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;However, I believe it was necessary to take action at this time in order to ensure public safety.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six men, one woman detained following raids across the city POLICE in Birmingham have arrested seven people in anti-terror raids across Birmingham. &#13; Six men, and one woman, were detained overnight as part of a large pre-planned, intelligence-led counter terrorism operation. &#13; West Midlands Police say the men were detained on suspicion of the commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}