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

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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.

This ‘terrorist attack’ is most likely false flag policy, a distraction. Like most of what passes for news

No one can credibly make claims like that at this moment.

Maybe if genuine foreign agents not likely to be a trial so no worries about sub judice?

Oh pipe down.
You wouldn’t say that if you lived next to the Fairford airbase.
Hats off and a medal needed to the female farmer who reported it.
If it was left to you, you would be serving them pots of tea and cream buns.

Interview with the woman who discovered them in the Telegraph.
Driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road.Confused, she turned her car around. As she did so, she saw a group of masked men in balaclavas scattering into the trees and across the fields towards RAF Fairford, located only a few hundred metres away.She drove off and called the police. When she stopped, she also messaged her local WhatsApp group and warned neighbours to lock their doors.Less than 25 minutes later, the men had been arrested. Video footage recorded by a villager shows five men, shirtless, sitting on the ground in handcuffs in the middle of a road, surrounded by counter-terror police.She said: “I just thought what the hell are they doing… I saw a group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys running off through the trees. Some of them had masks or balaclavas on, and they all scattered ahead of us as we drove back past.“Some of them ran into the fields, and some of them turned to run towards the air base. We realised this was something pretty serious.”

It’s all over social media…..

That sounds pretty scary.

The media pics are all blurred I think. But the original was put up on SM before that.

I was responding to the poster I quoted that claimed this was a false flag incident; which I disagree with.

The original picture wasn’t particularly focussed it would seem. Not pixelated, but not clear either.
The photos I’ve seen on SM seem to have used AI to generate sharpness.

Sorry. Responded to the wrong person….

I take it you have never lived in Iran?
Why don’t you try it? You might have an understanding of its vile regime and its take on women….

@MissyB1what makes you think I’m unaware of the role of the US & Isreal?! Are you saying if we hadn’t facilitated the war that the US would have backed down?

If this traitious government think they will get young men to sign up they will have a fight on their hands, who would want to go to war for a government that hate them, being called far right for flying our flag , being put in prison for hurty words, for being treated as 2 and class citizens, Burnham won't be having my son to fight a war that Labour have created.

I suspect I live further away from Fairford than you, but sleep was regularly disturbed with nighttime manuovours when they were flying our to Iran. I've had a few people saying to me in passing that they feel even us could have been put at risk, let alone people who really are local.

Well Iran has been linked to numerous planned terrorist attacks in the UK, to which the UK has made no response so I really can't see Ed Milliband doing anything about this one either:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/23/iran-low-level-hybrid-warfare-arson-attacks-uk-europe

I have seen the original and unblurred pics on X and middle eastern looking seems a good description.

😄😄 You've got the wrong left wing woman here babe 😩

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So there have been 20 Iranian backed attempted terrorist attacks in the UK in the last 5 years, long before the current conflict started.
How many US backed attempted terrorist attacks in the UK have there been over the same period.
Yet somehow you think that the US is the problem and not Iran.

I understand why people think in such a conspiracy theory way is to satisfy a social and psychological need for uniqueness and superiority, letting them feel that they possess exclusive, hidden knowledge that mainstream society does not. I understand this and just think that they just need psychological help:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/06/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories

I totally disagree, and if you can't understand why we are supporting them, then I am very suspicious of your motives.

Well going back to the IRA terrorist attacks, these were all committed by white males. So surely it's about time we had more diversity and inclusion in the type of terrorists in the UK?

You are massively embarrassing yourself.

This doesn’t make any sense! We have had plenty of terror attacks by people who are not white…

Its like an episode from the latest series of Trigger Point.

Why?

Sorry, who exactly is the one embarrassing themselves here? It's not big and it's not clever to be oblivious to it or refuse to wake up just because you think it's "caring and compassionate" to allow it to happen when these people you are so desperate to defend and protect would simply roll you out of existence if they had the chance.