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The Guardian
· collected 2026-09-28 · by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Wes Streeting, the UK defence secretary, stated that security forces were aware of a group arrested for allegedly plotting a bomb attack on RAF Fairford, an airbase used by US military operations against Iran. Five men were detained after local police found explosives in three suspicious vans near the base following a tip-off from an anonymous woman who alerted authorities. The incident led to the evacuation of 85 households nearby and prompted comments from U.S. President Donald Trump praising the cooperation between British security services and the U.S., though specific details about prior knowledge were not disclosed due to ongoing investigations.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-28,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In recent days, security measures at RAF Fairford, a U.S. Air Force base in Gloucestershire, England, significantly increased with armed police and roadblocks preventing access to the base. On Sunday morning, British police declared a major incident after suspicious vehicles were reported near the airbase; five UK nationals in their 20s were arrested and later released on bail for terror offenses under suspicion of involvement with explosives.
Local residents noted heavy vehicles and concrete barriers blocking entrances to the base weeks before the incident. Around 30 emergency vehicles, including police cars, ambulances, and fire engines, were stationed near the base during heightened security measures. The arrests occurred amid increased tensions between the U.S., Iran, and the UK; Iranian officials have denied involvement.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested a "foreign actor" was involved, linking it to threats from adversaries like Iran, while British Prime Minister Andy Burnham indicated there are strong indications that Iran played a role in the incident, despite ongoing investigations. The U.K. and U.S. have been closely cooperating on this matter, with Burnham stating they were “on top of it.”
Written for “RAF Fairford Terror Plot Incident” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 192 other(s) covering the same event.
UK security services were aware in advance about a group of men arrested in connection to a bomb plot against an RAF base used by the US military, Wes Streeting, the defence secretary has indicated.
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secretary → arrest → military
Five men were arrested on terrorism charges after armed officers found explosives in three vans parked minutes from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which hosts US air force missions against Iran.
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which → arrest → Iran
Police were alerted after a local woman driving near the base in the early hours of Sunday saw the vans and men acting unusually, and called 999.
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vans → alert → 999
Speaking to the BBC on Monday morning the woman said security services had seemingly “really dropped the ball on this”.
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services → speak → this
Speaking later to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Streeting said that while he wanted to thank the woman – who has chosen to remain anonymous – for calling police, “she had a partial picture”.
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she → speak → picture
He praised police and security services for their work, referencing comments by Donald Trump, who claimed that the suspects had been under view for a long time.
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suspects → praise → time
Saying the men “were looking to do big damage”, the US president added: “It was fantastic.
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It → say → damage
Working with Britain, it was an amazing job.”
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it → work → Britain
Asked if he was saying Trump had been correct, Streeting did not reject this: “Our security services and our police, they don’t ask for praise, but I think it was a proud moment yesterday to see the president of the United States recognise the extraordinary work that our police and our security and intelligence services do every day throughout the year and throughout the world to keep us safe.
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police → ask → us
That’s all I want to say this morning on that.”
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I → ’ → that
Streeting declined to give any details about any prior information about the plot, or the identities of the men arrested.
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Streeting → decline → men
He said: “There’s a live police investigation, and as a matter of course we don’t comment in detail on operational security matters, because often the more that we might say, the more insight we give to those who would wish us harm and do us harm, given the opportunity.”
uncertain
who → say → opportunity
Images showed shirtless men being handcuffed in a dark country lane after police were called to reports of three suspicious vans travelling towards RAF Fairford.
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police → show → Fairford
During the major incident the residents of 85 households in the Cotswolds village of Whelford were rapidly evacuated to Cirencester leisure centre and a 400m cordon was placed around the white vans as robots from the army’s bomb squad examined them.
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robots → evacuate → them
In comments read out by a member of BBC staff, the local woman who called the police said she had been driving home late from a party but that when she reached her farm she found the driveway and the road blocked by three white vans.
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driveway → read → vans
Thinking this was related to security operations at RAF Fairford she turned her car around, but then saw a group of men wearing hoods and masks, who ran away when they saw her.
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they → think → her
Suspicious, she called Ministry of Defence police and then 999.
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she → call → police
She said: “I think it was pure luck that I arrived in the village at a similar time to the vans.
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I → say → vans
I am absolutely staggered that it was left to me, as a member of the public, to see and report this.
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it → leave → this
“The airbase were operating a roadblock close to the entrance to the base, but not on any of the other roads.
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airbase → operate → roads
But we assumed someone would be monitoring the roads around the base perimeter and taking regular patrols in the village …
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someone → assume → village
“I’m just really keen to highlight that it appears someone really dropped the ball on this.”
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someone → ’m → this
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