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Counter terror police investigate possible Iran link to Fairford RAF bomb plot

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achristmaswish · 27/09/2026 16:49

Fairford latest: Counter terror police investigating if Iran is linked to RAF base bomb plot, Sky News understands | UK News | Sky News https://share.google/cU4wjxGZBYQtIb3sx

I couldn't find a thread on this breaking news. How awful for everyone involved.

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Catpuss66 · 28/09/2026 18:54

Bloodysquirellls · 27/09/2026 20:35

Link please… photo I have seen they look very white

Wondered if they were paid by Russia

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 18:55

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I know how people can even think like that is disgusting

I really hope that people don’t vote for labour or the greens who want bloody open borders when the time comes to vote

BIossomtoes · 28/09/2026 18:55

This pile on is an absolute disgrace as is the vilification of an entire class of people. I don’t know how some of you look in the mirror.

TemperanceWest · 28/09/2026 18:55

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"Many have tried to imply this is about immigration, but these are the choices of one man, not an ethnic group," Alexandra Whyte. Sister of Rhiannon Whyte.

Abhannmor · 28/09/2026 18:56

GetBernie · 28/09/2026 18:29

Even more embarrassing if they had been watching actual terrorists, only to assume that this arrest was them caught red handed, and it turns out it wasn't them but a bunch of small time thieves. So the actual terrorists have now been tipped off that they've been under surveillance and need to call off their plan. Phew. Close call. Well done Trump. 🤔

Evan Davis BBC radio 4 PM : ' the police statement seems at variance with what President Trump said last night?'
Frank Gardner security correspondent : ' well yes..'

I don't know how either of them managed to hold it together. Very diplomatic. Trump is hallucinating.

SingingShrews · 28/09/2026 18:56

1dayatatime · 28/09/2026 18:46

Congratulations on managing to weave institutional systemic racism into this event.

How about their skin colour had nothing to do with it (especially as they were allegedly wearing balaclavas) and it had everything to do with parking three transit vans 300 metres from a major heavily protected airbase whereupon they decided to transfer the stolen fuel between the vehicles, all in the middle of the night.

Strange how it was front and centre of every news report then and how their race has led to a whole thread about 'boat people' and asylum seekers, and people complaining about how the BBC made them look too look given how irrelevant their race is. The farmer clearly saw enough to say that they were 'Middle Eastern looking'.

placemats · 28/09/2026 18:56

Wrong thread.

TemperanceWest · 28/09/2026 18:56

BIossomtoes · 28/09/2026 18:55

This pile on is an absolute disgrace as is the vilification of an entire class of people. I don’t know how some of you look in the mirror.

Some pile ons are OK it seems.

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 18:58

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Again - for those hard of reading - I made a comment generically about all humans and extrapolated that to asylum seekers.

I think Rhiannon’s murder was abhorrent.

I think talking about vile people invading the U.K. as one homogenous ‘vile’ group is showing your anger at least but you’re so very upset about it all - I’d best not tell you this will never be stopped I guess!

ThatElatedTaupeMember · 28/09/2026 18:58

Some brown people were seen in a field by a farmer.

The police are called and arrive.

Trump explains they have been watching them for some time and they "got them".

Police release the brown people. Trump lied.

LuckyHazelFox · 28/09/2026 18:59

We should all be relieved if this turns out to be not terrorist related. The police have said the suspects remain on strict bail conditions while their investigations are ongoing.

placemats · 28/09/2026 18:59

SingingShrews · 28/09/2026 18:56

Strange how it was front and centre of every news report then and how their race has led to a whole thread about 'boat people' and asylum seekers, and people complaining about how the BBC made them look too look given how irrelevant their race is. The farmer clearly saw enough to say that they were 'Middle Eastern looking'.

How does anybody know what 'middle eastern people' look like 🤔 😮 😞

It's like saying they looked Scottish.

Wolmando · 28/09/2026 19:01

GetBernie · 28/09/2026 18:22

The woman's statement said that she came across a big group of men, can't remember the exact wording but it certainly sounded like more than the 5 who were apprehended.

There were 3 vans so was it just 2, 2, and 1 in each.

EasternStandard · 28/09/2026 19:01

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 18:58

Again - for those hard of reading - I made a comment generically about all humans and extrapolated that to asylum seekers.

I think Rhiannon’s murder was abhorrent.

I think talking about vile people invading the U.K. as one homogenous ‘vile’ group is showing your anger at least but you’re so very upset about it all - I’d best not tell you this will never be stopped I guess!

Do you not agree Labour can ‘smash the gangs’ as pledged at last GE?

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 19:02

TemperanceWest · 28/09/2026 18:55

"Many have tried to imply this is about immigration, but these are the choices of one man, not an ethnic group," Alexandra Whyte. Sister of Rhiannon Whyte.

So what

she is then a much nicer person than me

because I would be screaming from the rooftops it is because of immigration my sister is dead
if he hadn’t got into the uk then her sister wouldn’t have been murdered and her nephew be without a mother

because I would want that fucker hung drawn and quartered and I would sell tickets for it

I stand by what I say
I don’t want any more fucking asylum seekers getting into the uk by boats or any other way men or women stop the lot of them .

process them off shore - see the numbers drop
when they aren’t getting free access to the uk

Any party that will do this will get my vote and probably many more

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 19:02

Ponoka7 · 28/09/2026 18:40

Go on the threads about cutting welfare and disability benefits for British citizens, including those with the right to remain etc and tell them they are abhorrent. Unless women have a career, stable housing and picked the father of their baby correctly, then they are slagged off to death and told they shouldn't be having babies and that's before we get to SAHMs. Why everywhere else in the world can people not opt for contraception and be brought over, housed and given money etc? We don't have enough resources. We brought in a punitive benefit system, which put British children in poverty and cut our family sizes. Children are suffering because of unstable housing. How is it fair to the lower waged people to bring people in and set them up?

I should have specified that talking about any woman as a breeding mare for benefits is abhorrent.

I do not agree with cutting benefits for anyone in need.

I am not sure why this is relevant though to red diesel theft.

Lonelycrab · 28/09/2026 19:02

If those appended were doing nothing more sinister than stealing a bit of (red, presumably) diesel….

Then there is a brilliant, poetic irony about Trump claiming we should all thank him, he’s one step ahead of the curve etc etc blah blah..

When he, with his un winnable war with Iran is the very reason it is now profitable and worthwhile to steal diesel in the first place…

Other than that, this whole toxic thread is almost a perfect example of exactly why speculation, without facts, is a really unhelpful thing to engage in.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 28/09/2026 19:04

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Careful. You are probably being monitored by the secret services who want these people in the country. Can't think why but there must be a purpose.

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 19:05

EasternStandard · 28/09/2026 19:01

Do you not agree Labour can ‘smash the gangs’ as pledged at last GE?

I hope they can make a difference to the gangs - trafficking and smuggling is terrible.

However, I have said on numerous threads that I don’t believe people will stop migrating here, and elsewhere, it’s what we’ve done since the start of human time - plus climate, wars etc. The gangs are profiting from this but it will happen without them.

I’d love a global solution to all this but that’s a pipe dream - I’m the meantime I reckon being nice to your neighbour is a great start to the kind of society that benefits everyone.

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 19:05

YourAmplePlumPoster · 28/09/2026 19:04

Careful. You are probably being monitored by the secret services who want these people in the country. Can't think why but there must be a purpose.

lol I’m on a VPN

Currently in Norway 😂

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 19:06

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 19:02

So what

she is then a much nicer person than me

because I would be screaming from the rooftops it is because of immigration my sister is dead
if he hadn’t got into the uk then her sister wouldn’t have been murdered and her nephew be without a mother

because I would want that fucker hung drawn and quartered and I would sell tickets for it

I stand by what I say
I don’t want any more fucking asylum seekers getting into the uk by boats or any other way men or women stop the lot of them .

process them off shore - see the numbers drop
when they aren’t getting free access to the uk

Any party that will do this will get my vote and probably many more

I think you need a lie down with a cold flannel dear.

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 19:07

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 19:05

I hope they can make a difference to the gangs - trafficking and smuggling is terrible.

However, I have said on numerous threads that I don’t believe people will stop migrating here, and elsewhere, it’s what we’ve done since the start of human time - plus climate, wars etc. The gangs are profiting from this but it will happen without them.

I’d love a global solution to all this but that’s a pipe dream - I’m the meantime I reckon being nice to your neighbour is a great start to the kind of society that benefits everyone.

I’m lovely to my neighbors always have been

i just don’t want any more asylum seekers in the uk wandering around like they own the place

if they must be allowed in …
process them off shore or in military camps where they can’t leave and can’t murder and rape women and young kids

EasternStandard · 28/09/2026 19:08

MsJinks · 28/09/2026 19:05

I hope they can make a difference to the gangs - trafficking and smuggling is terrible.

However, I have said on numerous threads that I don’t believe people will stop migrating here, and elsewhere, it’s what we’ve done since the start of human time - plus climate, wars etc. The gangs are profiting from this but it will happen without them.

I’d love a global solution to all this but that’s a pipe dream - I’m the meantime I reckon being nice to your neighbour is a great start to the kind of society that benefits everyone.

Yes that’s nice re last line, but if Labour do see a rise again in numbers they’ll likely struggle. Atm their main selling point is ‘the numbers are down’. If they go up then I guess we’ll see how the GE goes.

Vanillaicelatte · 28/09/2026 19:09

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YourAmplePlumPoster · 28/09/2026 19:10

Let alone the people who might be reporting you to everyone and anyone. The police might even visit. That is the way things are now. People are arrested for tweets are arrested and even jailed and illegal immigrants are let off' given state housing and state money.

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