Five men arrest­ed over sus­pect­ed RAF Fair­ford bomb plot to be released on bail: UK police

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Five men arrested over suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot to be released on bail: UK police

The five men arrest­ed on Sun­day out­side of RAF Fair­ford, a U.K. air base used by the Unit­ed States in the Iran war, on sus­pi­cion of plan­ning an attack on the base, will be released on bail, U.K. police said.Head of coun­tert­er­ror­ism polic­ing Lau­rence Tay­lor announced the update dur­ing a Mon­day press con­fer­ence on the steps of Scot­land Yard. Despite their release, Tay­lor still spoke of the event as a foiled attack, and left open the pos­si­bil­i­ty that they could’ve been prox­ies for a for­eign gov­ern­ment, allud­ing to Iran.“We are con­sid­er­ing this from every pos­si­ble angle, includ­ing that this may be active­ly com­mit­ted by p …