[Gary L]

POLICE armed response vehicles are patrolling 24 hours-a-day around Birmingham after intelligence chiefs warned of a Mumbai-style terror attack on the city.
The West Midlands force has DOUBLED the number of armed officers in the city, TREBLED the armed vehicles on patrol and deployed specialist marksmen trained to carry out “head shots” on terrorist gunmen.
The move comes after a Birmingham man was killed in the Al Qaeda heartland of North West Pakistan last month, leading to fears that he was at the centre of a terror cell intent on copying the Mumbai attacks by targeting hotels in European cities.

The UK’s terror threat level remains at “severe”, the second highest rating, where it has been since January.
Chillingly, our police source said the threat to Birmingham could come from INSIDE the city.
And he warned that the decision to remove CCTV cameras from Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook following an outcry from local residents had hampered efforts to trace suspected extremists.
“The counter terrorism officers have got a major problem trying to gather evidence against suspects,” he said.
“That’s always a difficult job, but it’s been made twice as hard by all this nonsense over the CCTV cameras. They could have really made a difference in tracing extremists.”
The cameras were mothballed in June after it was revealed that funding for the £3 million scheme, which formed a surveillance “ring of steel” around the mainly Islamic communities of Sparkbrook, Washwood Heath and Alum Rock, had come from a national counter-terrorism grant, rather than from West Midlands Police’s regular budget.
Last month, the Sunday Mercury revealed that four of the 12 most dangerous terror suspects in Britain are living in the Midlands.

Someone's going to feel really silly if any terrorist activity develops from where they gave in to the demands of switching off the CCTV.

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