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

David49

Embarrassment all round but it's clear that there were no explosives involved or they would not have been released on bail.
Most likely they were planning a protest similar to the entry into Brize Norton recently armed with paint and slogans.

Then why did the police say one of the charges against them is in relation to explosives. if, as you say, no explosives were present?

Why don't Tommo and his ilk just use their regular names?

If the men involved are British in what way are they far from home? I don't think London is so far from Fairford.

greyfur16

Why don't Tommo and his ilk just use their regular names?

If the men involved are British in what way are they far from home? I don't think London is so far from Fairford.

What, 100 miles away at 1 am?
A long way to travel for a take-away or anything for that matter when London has everything on your doorstep!

Oh! I see you're cannily twisting words again greyfur to suit what you think a poster meant. 😂

David49

Embarrassment all round but it's clear that there were no explosives involved or they would not have been released on bail.
Most likely they were planning a protest similar to the entry into Brize Norton recently armed with paint and slogans.

I find that very possible., if it wasn't a botched paid "job".

I feel a bit sceptical about it all.

It could have been a dummy run is another possibility.. Until the investigations are complete we won’t know. One concerning fact however is that whatever it was how did they get so close to the RAaF base at Fairford? They could have had explosives. What then?

MartavTaurus

Oh! I see you're cannily twisting words again greyfur to suit what you think a poster meant. 😂

I have no idea what you are talking about.

greyfur16

MartavTaurus

Oh! I see you're cannily twisting words again greyfur to suit what you think a poster meant. 😂

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I rest my case! 😂

Why don’t we just all war and see instead constantly speculating.

Now I’m going to speculate haha

From the small amount of info released, whatever Trump persistently clams, it appear all 5 men are British and living here in London.

Other than that we know nothing.

Will be very interesting to get the whole story, which time hopefully we will.

War? Wait!!

I'm wondering whether it was an exercise to test out emergency responses, a plot to test the security set up or even 'just' an attempt to break in to steal fuel or something. Seems very strange that what appears to be a terrorist gang would be released on bail, no matter how stringent the conditions. I guess we'll never really know - justifiably, for security reasons.

Sarnia

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Surely not terrorists then if out on bail.
Huge relief all round in so many respects.

They have been released on bail suspected of explosive and terrorism charges.
You may be feeling huge relief but it beggars my belief that bail was even considered.

Same here. Suspected terrorists released on bail? It definitely does beggar belief when others have been refused bail for tweeting some hurty words. The case that stands out for me is Lucy Connolly who was a childminder and had her own young daughter at home. Refused bail and jailed for 2 years!

Yet 5 suspected terrorists are released on bail. They could disappear and never be found. The Police hardly had time to interview them!

You wouldn’t want to be a policeman, must be very upsetting and frustrating. Maybe a good hard look at the bail justices is required ?
Oh, and dear * Doodledog* I was trying to respond to a comment you made about there being no far left. You brought the topic up, not me. Whatever.

The Police hardly had time to interview them!

Perhaps read the formal statement from Counter Terrorism Police Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor who said:

Extracts:

I can confirm that following extensive interviews and enquiries, the five men who were arrested are being released on police bail this afternoon.

To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over. They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of enquiry.

Police bail can be pre charge during an ongoing investigation or post charge (before the first hearing at a magistrates court).

There is nothing in the statement that says they have been charged.

www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/update-on-raf-fairford-investigation-1600-28-september-2026/

Extensive interviews!

Every bit that comes out of this, makes me more uneasy.

Couldn’t it simply be that they were suspected of terrorism until they were interviewed, then it was realised that the suspicion was wrong, so in accordance with the law they were released?

Would people really want to see suspicion be a reason to detain suspects indefinitely?

Part of the problem, I think, is the pressure to report everything as soon as it happens, and the glee with which those with an agenda pounce on everything that’s reported and add speculation to the mix.

Every bit of this that comes out makes me feel less uneasy. Unlike a lot of people I don’t subscribe to the ‘I know better than the police’ mindset. They have all the information gathered so far, including from the phones, and Intelligence Services. We don’t.

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^The Police hardly had time to interview them!^

Perhaps read the formal statement from Counter Terrorism Police Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor who said:

Extracts:

I can confirm that following extensive interviews and enquiries, the five men who were arrested are being released on police bail this afternoon.

To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over. They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of enquiry.

Police bail can be pre charge during an ongoing investigation or post charge (before the first hearing at a magistrates court).

There is nothing in the statement that says they have been charged.

www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/update-on-raf-fairford-investigation-1600-28-september-2026/

Have said this before, but why rely on facts when some on here think they can do far better jobs than those in our police, justice system, MPs, PM.

Let these people do their jobs. You have no idea whether they were interviewed robustly or no.

Just wait. You cannot simply charge people with no evidence! Here was none other than men behaving very suspiciously.

Agreed, Cossy and Casdon

Exactly that DD. We don’t know precisely what this is yet.

Jason Burke, the Guardian’s international security correspondent… “though we have very little in the way of information to work on, so it’s entirely possible an altogether different scenario is at play.”

As for the five suspects, their being British nationals is likely of little help when determining who may be behind the plot (if there is one). “The Iranian modus operandi – borrowing a leaf from the Russian playbook – relies on using local hires,” Jason says. “Instead of deploying their own intelligence operatives, they recruit low-grade agents on the ground, some of whom may not fully realise what they are involved in.”

It sounds reminiscent of the recent case involving Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc who were found guilty of conspiracy to damage by fire property relating to Keir Starmer.

Lavrynovych carried them out after being recruited by Russian-speaking Telegram user "EL" who promised him payment. He had previously been hired by the same unknown figure to put up far-right posters. The judge, Mr Justice Garnham, described Lavrynovych as a "useful idiot" who could be easily manipulated. He said he had been "easily bought" and "accepted the job as you had accepted other grubby little tasks”. (BBC)

Possibly, but again, we don’t know.

The word on other platforms is that the vans contained fuel drums. And the men were set up to steal diesel from farms. Or that they had a contact at the airbase who had sold them fuel. I understand that farmers get quite a bit of fuel stolen. If this is true, how fabulous that our USA friends are on top of this, and have surveillance on them! Who knows what to believe these days?

''There is no far left in the UK, beyond 'Wolfie Smith' oddbods. No mainstream parties, anyway. There are far right ones (Reform, Restore UK and possibly more) whether or not supporters see themselves as such.'
extraordinary Doodledog! you see Reform as far right but the new greens under Zack P and Jeremy corbyn supporters as not far left? Are you so sucked in to progressive isdeology..the pro-palestinians, any complaint issued against them as islamophobic? That women can have a penis? and that any complaint makes you a scary TERF? The reaction to this woke ideology is seen as 'far right' that is the shame. And swallowing it whole shows how far 'progressives' aka known as far left have infiltrated society through the portals of academia, the BBC and the old trusted Guardian...is unreal. so people keep their heads down and hope it will go away. But dont fool yourself it is very dangerous and men aren't women whatever they feel about it.