Farmer Who Foiled RAF 'Bomb' Says She Saw More than Five Suspects
A resident’s 999 call led armed officers to detain five men and evacuate 85 households while bomb disposal teams searched three vans.
- On Sunday, a member of the public's 999 call triggered a security operation near RAF Fairford, where armed police detained five men amid a suspected terror plot.
- The base has faced increased scrutiny since the government permitted the United States to launch strikes on Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz, prompting Revolutionary Guards to issue warnings to Britain.
- Following a report of "suspicious vans," the Army's Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit examined three abandoned vehicles while officers established a 400m cordon and evacuated 85 households in the village of Whelford.
- Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans confirmed five men remain in custody under the Terrorism Act, with investigators working closely with Gloucestershire Police to gather evidence.
- President Donald Trump hailed the arrests as "fantastic," claiming the suspects were "looking to do big damage," while the Department of Defence has placed all United States bases on Delta alert.
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One of the five men arrested early Sunday morning at the British air force base RAF Fairford called the police himself. The suspect reportedly did so nearly an hour before a local resident called the emergency number 999. This is reported by several British media outlets. The men were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on the air force base, which is used by the US military for, among other things, the war in Iran.
Close to a U.S. air base in the UK, five men were arrested under suspicion of terror on Sunday. Now it turned out that one of them had called 911 himself.
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After the nocturnal incident at a U.S. air base in the United Kingdom, the facts only come to light in pieces. The British "Times" now wants to have experienced something surprising.
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