UK police question five men held at airbase used by US to attack Iran
Counterterrorism detectives are examining whether the suspected plot targeted US bombers at the base, while 85 nearby households were evacuated, police said.
- UK Counter Terrorism Policing took the lead in interrogating five men arrested early Sunday near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act and committing offences under the Explosives Act.
- Armed officers intercepted the suspects in the village of Whelford following a 12:45 a.m. local call reporting three suspicious white vans driving toward the military installation, which hosts US B-1 and B-52 bombers.
- Army explosive ordnance disposal units deployed bomb disposal robots to inspect the intercepted vehicles, prompting authorities to establish a 400-meter cordon and evacuate roughly 85 households to a local leisure center.
- Senior security sources noted that potential Iranian-linked retaliation is a primary line of inquiry—following Iranian Revolutionary Guard warnings targeting allied bases—though investigators are also assessing possible Russian sabotage or Islamist motives.
- US President Donald Trump stated that American and British authorities had the suspects under joint review, while the US Air Force confirmed personnel at the installation remain on heightened security alert.
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U.K. counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Tehran contributed to a potential bomb threat near an air force base used by the U.S. military in the war against Iran, British media reported on Monday.
British media report that the major security operation was launched yesterday at Fairford Air Force Base after a call from a farmer who lives nearby. When she and her husband returned from a party shortly after midnight, she saw three white vans parked on a road just outside the village of Whelford. “We had to turn around. When we did that, we saw a group of men in balaclavas running ahead of us,” she tells The Sun. “Some of them tried to hide. …
The farmer's emergency call may have stopped a suspected terrorist attack in southwest England.
The tip that led to an attack on the British airbase Fairford being averted came from a farmer who saw “a group of men in hoods and masks.” US President Donald Trump nods when asked if there is a link to Iran.
Suspicious vans trigger alarm at Fairford air base in UK, while expert points to Iran and Russia as possible culprits
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