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Man arrested for alleged terror threat on US airbase RAF Fairford released on bail
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The U.K.-Iranian dual national who was arrested in connection with an alleged terror threat against a U.S.-operated military base in England was released on bail, British authorities confirmed Saturday.
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It remains unclear what happened with the arrest of five men outside a U.S. Air Force base in the United Kingdom late Saturday. We do know that there has been a terrorist plot targeting RAF Fairford since at least early September.
Counter terrorism police said a dual UK-Iranian national was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Five men arrested on Sunday remain on bail.
British authorities arrested a sixth suspect Thursday as they tried to answer the central mystery surrounding an alleged terrorist plot near RAF Fairford: If three vans carried fuel but no bombs, what were the men allegedly preparing to do? The arrest of a 25-year-old dual British-Iranian national i…
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police investigating a suspected plot involving an air base used by the US said on Saturday they had released on bail a dual UK-Iranian national who had been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
The 25-year-old was the sixth man detained as counter-terrorism police investigate ‘possible foreign state involvement’ A sixth man who was arrested in connection with a suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford has been released on bail.
The U.K.-Iranian dual national who was arrested in connection with an alleged terror threat against a U.S.-operated military base in England was released on bail, British authorities confirmed Saturday.
