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British police investigate whether arrests near US-run air base foiled an Iran-linked attack
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The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted in the countryside near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East.
British police arrested five men on Sunday on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a military base in western England that’s operated by the U.S. Air Force.
British police say that five men arrested under counterterrorism laws near a U.S.-run air base in England will be released on bail but are still under investigation.