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

[achristmaswish]

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.

That doesn't tie in with reports from some locals (TBF unconfirmed) that the base increased security measures to at least to some extent on Saturday...if that's true it hints at intelligence knowing something.

If the supposed terrorists didn't make it as far as the airfield fence you wouldn't expect base CCTV to.pick anything up.

We need to be aware a lot of what intelligence did/didn't know and the fine details of everything that went on Sat/Sun probably won't ever get into the public domain.

Their party conference is now important to them than the terror crisis.

Let's hope they don't get hecklers interrupting their proceedings.

We need to be aware a lot of what intelligence did/didn't know and the fine details of everything that went on Sat/Sun probably won't ever get into the public domain.

Exactly

Agree.

Do you not think we were a target before Trump?

Faslane,

Russia is permanently pissed off with the UK and has been since at least the 1970s. It's not a new state of affairs. Blaming it on our support for Ukraine is naive and simplistic.

I think we should all look a little further than the end of our noses, the media have been proved to bend the truth a little, and as I said IF Trump is right then Burnham has lied to our faces.

Remember Anne Widdecombe death, how the media were so quick to tell us they had arrested a guy only 30 mins from her home, that wasn't the guy, let's see how long it takes them to name the guys that got arrested... Because if they were John, Pete, Steve and Dave it would be all over the news.

So no conspiracy theories here, just observations as sometimes things aren't quite what the media and government will have us believe.

Do you think Russia are even more 'pissed off' with us now due to our support for Ukraine? Most European countries agree that the threat has increased.

Let's hope they do! They need outing, a bunch of lieing crooks the lot of them

True, and not only with the UK, but the West in general.
I once watched a 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector, where he explained how the Soviet Union used tactics of ideological subversion to slowly destabilise Western societies from within.

Yet Burnham’s priority seems to be reforming social care for older people. My first thought on hearing that was,

’the way things are going, none of us will be around to need care’.

Of course they might be ‘more pissed off’ that they couldn’t just launch an attack on their neighbours completely unchallenged.

naive, just so naive.

"I'm on the fence with this tbh, how many past presidents all said
"Iran must never be allowed to have nuclear weapons "
Obama, Clinton, Bush, all said it but done nothing, along comes Trump and actually does something!!! Yet he's the bad guy.?"

That's not true. Obama had a agreement with them limiting their nuclear programme (the JPCOA) but Trump tore it up when he came into office and foolishly followed Netanyahu into a war that he cant win, screwing us all in the process.

Not especially. The threat has increased, yes, but I think more because the war in Ukraine provides Russia with the opportunity to weaken western Europe and the EU. They see the UK as a major player in Western strength and cohesion. They are irritated that we are still so closely aligned with the rest of Europe despite leaving the EU - I think they would have hoped it would weaken Europe more than it seems to have. The threats have increased because if they can persuade one of the major western European powers to break ranks, the rest of Europe's resolve might crumble. The UK is probably an appealing target to them as we've already distanced ourselves from Europe to some extent due to Brexit. Which is why we should definitely stand firm with our European neighbours in our support of Ukraine.

I’m not doing that.

OP seems to do it.

I believe it's quite worrying that people think Trump is a bigger threat to the west than Iran.

Yes I find that odd.

Whatever people want to say about Trump and I'm no fan of his - to make out he or the US are more dangerous to the UK than Iran is nonsense.

Iran fucking hate the West!

Trump is a threat to the West because his support of other western nations is unreliable. The threat from countries like Iran and Russia is increased due to Trump's apparently fickle support for his allies. He is a threat because he is enabling other nations to be bolder in their threats.

Exactly. It's a known weak point. Half the people coming in on boats disappear completely to work for their smugglers in the drug trade. They don't even bother with the asylum system. No one can find them. If you are a hostile agent it's a massive no brainer to stick some terrorists on a boat, pay extra to make sure they were first on board and bobs your uncle. If they are caught they are stuck in a house with loads of young men with no money from who knows where, many of them Muslim, easy to be radicalised, if not they are free to do what they like and no one knows who they are. Yet Labour are fighting to get votes from a party that advocates open borders.

This.
So many posters suffering from ‘Trump
Derangement Syndrome’ where they can’t get beyond their obsessive infantile knee jerk reaction against anything he does or says.

Made more embarrassing where the obsession with Trump is accompanied by childish orange nicknames.