Major incident declared this morning near RAF Fairford with home evacuated.

Primrose53

Sounds dodgy to me. Why would you drive about a 200mile round trip to pinch diesel and park up just a few yards from an air base? Well dodgy.

Someone who wanted to impair the effective operation of the base? And make a few bob at the same time?

This just gets weirder, the Times is now reporting that one of the suspects phoned 999 to report himself.

It now seems one of them dialed 999 and the extra figures the farmer saw were actually armed police rounding them up!!

Galaxy

This just gets weirder, the Times is now reporting that one of the suspects phoned 999 to report himself.

How peculiar

The updated intel does nothing more than prove Trump was lying and Farage was scaremongering.

Iranians, like Russians, wanting to infiltrate our country, will and probably have, come here via legal means under some diplomatic guise.

Birth countries have plenty of contacts and plenty of money.

I have no doubt we have cells in this country that our intelligence services will be well aware of and watching.

What is it that you think extremely senior figures in our Home Office, Foreign Office, MOD, M15 etc etc actually do?

There are undoubtably criminal elements arriving in our country via irregular means too, but it’s extremely unlikely they are organised terrorists, however, of course, there could be lone criminals who could attempt to carry out terrorist acts, arriving via the boats.

Galaxy

This just gets weirder, the Times is now reporting that one of the suspects phoned 999 to report himself.

Can you repeat that please?
I'm completely lost now!

Anyone?

These men sound very inept at whatever they were trying to do, if Iran or Russia masterminded it they picked a bunch without a brain cell rather than a cell of well trained terrorists, so it sounds highly unlikely.

Maybe it was some sort of test to see if the security was adequate which it proved not to be because they didn’t respond to the initial phone call. Very elaborate,though and why were they wearing masks ?

MartavTaurus

Galaxy

This just gets weirder, the Times is now reporting that one of the suspects phoned 999 to report himself.

Can you repeat that please?
I'm completely lost now!

Anyone?

There are idiots that would do that as a prank, high on booze or weed, not caring if they get arrested or not, it's all a big laugh to them. Baiting the police has become a national sport.

There is no penalty that would deter them they already gave a police record, probably been in prison or youth custody, being arrested as terrorists carries a lot of kudos for them

Sometimes at work we get emails sent as a test to check if we are alert to scams. Perhaps this is the same on a national scale. I suspect we have all failed

Rocknroll5me

Oh and bythe way..I have no party to vote for. I have always been left wing but I am not going to vote for any party that swallows the progressive gender woo woo. My Labour MP Alex Sobel says he does not want bigots voting for him. He publicly defies and denies the Casey repot and condones transgender therapy for children as well as male self identified women be allowed in womens prisons, sports etc. He calls anyone disagreeing a bigot. I have for the first time in my life been disenfrancheised, as women always used used to be. And the deputy leader of the Green Party Mothin Ali is a local councillor whose wife appears in full niqab. I f you do not support this you are right wing...apparently. That goes much further than the old left used to. Even Mark Steel who was a Wolfie..in the SWP... is against this false belief.

You seem to be continually derailing this thread . Dragging your views on transgender and niqabs. This is just wrong and has nothing to do with the subject!

Sir Ken McCallum, the director-general of MI5, warned last year that more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots had been foiled over the past 12 months.

The 999 call came from one of the perpetrators!

One of the men arrested phoned the police almost an hour before the farmer rang them.

nanna8

Maybe it was some sort of test to see if the security was adequate which it proved not to be because they didn’t respond to the initial phone call. Very elaborate,though and why were they wearing masks ?

It was the police wearing masks and as I said previously, account for the extra people that the farmer saw.

The report that one of the masked men apparently dialled 999 makes me even surer that the whole thing was an exercise

I guess a balaclava could be considered a type of mask?
Maybe it was a bit chilly at that time of the night?

If there was the least suspicion that these men were terrorists they would not be allowed out on bail. Whatever they were up to it was not any kind of terrorist plot.

Primrose53

Sounds dodgy to me. Why would you drive about a 200mile round trip to pinch diesel and park up just a few yards from an air base? Well dodgy.

Any ideas?

nanna8

Maybe it was some sort of test to see if the security was adequate which it proved not to be because they didn’t respond to the initial phone call. Very elaborate,though and why were they wearing masks ?

I'm beginning to wonder! But why all the diesel?
And yes, why would you spend money going to a place much further away to steal diesel when there must be some nearer London?
Had anyone reported that their diesel had been stolen?

MartavTaurus

I guess a balaclava could be considered a type of mask?
Maybe it was a bit chilly at that time of the night?

Were they wearing masks because they were concerned they might inhale diesel fumes?

It really does all get curiouser and curiouser.

MartavTaurus

Galaxy

This just gets weirder, the Times is now reporting that one of the suspects phoned 999 to report himself.

Can you repeat that please?
I'm completely lost now!

Anyone?

One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself - BBC News share.google/yLxRKQZsFWCTbh6Z7

JenniRen

nanna8

Maybe it was some sort of test to see if the security was adequate which it proved not to be because they didn’t respond to the initial phone call. Very elaborate,though and why were they wearing masks ?

I'm beginning to wonder! But why all the diesel?
And yes, why would you spend money going to a place much further away to steal diesel when there must be some nearer London?
Had anyone reported that their diesel had been stolen?

Diesel is VERY expensive.. thanks to world terrorist Trump.

They like to keep people guessing but the trouble is, more often than not, it backfires. They are too thick to have worked this out, sadly. They just love being ‘in the know ‘. Always was the case, always will be.