UPDATE: The five men arrested on suspicion of a plot to attack a UK airbase used by long-range US bombers are to be released on bail, British counter-terrorism police said on Monday. The five are all British nationals from the London area, aged between 23 and 25, according to police. The release of the men does not mean that the investigation is over, Laurence Taylor, a senior officer in the UK counter-terrorism police said at a brief news conference Monday. The five men would be subject to stringent conditions on their movements, he said.
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British police on Sunday arrested five men on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses close to an airbase in England that is used by US long-range bombers in the war against Iran.
In July, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specifically noted RAF Fairford’s use by US bombers, warning the UK that “any base used for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a legitimate target for our forces.” The Iranian embassy in London issued a statement Monday saying it “categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations published by some British individuals and media outlets attempting to link Iran to arrest of five suspects in the vicinity of RAF Fairford base.”
US President Donald Trump called the arrests “fantastic,” saying the US and the UK had the men under investigation for “a long time.”
0:00 UK investigating suspected terror plot at base used by US
0:28 President Trump’s statement on the arrests
0:53 CNN’s Nic Robertson reports on the scene in Fairford, England
3:38 CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem unpacks what we know
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