{"id":300860,"date":"2026-10-06T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:40:45","slug":"uk-police-arrest-a-7th-man-in-connection-with-a-security-incident-at-a-us-run-air-base-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300860\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest a 7th man in connection with a security incident at a US-run air base | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base<\/a> in England that authorities have linked to Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford<\/a>, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year’s war.<\/p>\n

Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, and a 25-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday. All six have been released on bail under investigation.<\/p>\n

Counter Terrorism Policing said a British national was detained Tuesday in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.<\/p>\n

Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said detectives \u201ccontinue to pursue multiple lines of inquiry\u201d and \u201cremain committed to investigating all possible angles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area late at night. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant \u2014 gasoline \u2014 in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the United Kingdom saw \u201cstrong indications\u201d that Iran played a part in the incident, without saying why or what the nature of the suspected plot was.<\/p>\n

Iran has denied involvement, but it has previously said it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The United States moved its B-52 and B-1 bombers<\/a> from RAF Fairford on Sunday, though it’s unclear whether the move is connected to the arrests. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he didn\u2019t want to tempt \u201cthe enemy\u201d by having the bombers there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a threat, and if we\u2019re going to be threatened, we would just move them, and that sort of alleviates that,\u201d he said in Washington. He said that the people who made the threat \u201cwould be linked to Iran,\u201d but he didn\u2019t offer details.<\/p>\n

British officials have declined to comment on reports that the bombers were moved because of fears of a drone attack on the base.<\/p>\n

The prime minister’s spokesman, Tom Wells, said Monday he was “not going to comment on foreign nations\u2019 military operations.\u201d But he insisted that RAF Fairford is safe.<\/p>\n

The mysterious incident near the base came at a time of heightened tensions around the threat from hostile states, with British security services saying Russia and Iran have both used proxies to commit crimes on U.K. soil. British officials have said the number of national security cases involving activity by hostile states, including Iran, increased by 50% in the six months to December 2025.<\/p>\n

U.K. officials also say proxies linked to Iran have been behind a string of arsons and other attacks in the U.K. and other countries, many of them targeting the Jewish community and intended to sow fear. They have previously warned that Tehran could expand its targets in the U.K. if conflicts in the Middle East continue.<\/p>\n

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