The United States Air Force has reportedly withdrawn all B-1 bomber planes from Britain’s Royal Air Force Fairford after an investigation into a suspected terror attack at the airbase and a new reported ‘unspecified’ threat.
RAF air base incident
During the investigation, six people were taken into custody and released on bail, the Associated Press reported. Police investigated men with several vans near the southwest England airbase after a local farmer reported it. This comes following a suspicious incident that prompted evacuations near the airbase. The source, mentioned in the report, called the latest threat a “real world incident. Following a security incident at RAF Fairford in September, a British-Iranian national was arrested in London last week on suspicion of plotting a terror attack. British authorities had linked the incident to Iran.
The incident triggered evacuations at 85 homes near the airbase, which was used to launch strikes against Iran.
A US official, cited by CNN, said that the US has moved the bombers after an unspecified new threat.
