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DEVELOPING STORY. DEVELOPING STORY, police arrest UK-Iranian national over airbase incident Counter-terrorism police also questioned a UK national, days after five others were arrested and released on bail.
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British police arrest UK-Iranian national over airbase incident Police officers guard an area near RAF Fairford airbase, after police declared a major incident at the base on Sunday [File: ] A man with dual UK-Iranian citizenship has been arrested in connection with an alleged security incident at an airbase in southwest England over the weekend. British counter-terrorism police said on Thursday that a “27-year-old man, a dual UK/Iranian national, was arrested” in central London. He was detained “on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts” as part of an investigation into the events Sunday near RAF Fairford. A second man, 26 – a UK national – was also “questioned under caution”, the police statement added. The RAF base 160km west of London has been used by US bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including the US and Israel’s war on Iran, which began in February. On Sunday, five men, all in their 20s and from London, were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and “terrorism” over the incident at RAF Fairford. They have since been released on bail. “The investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of enquiry,” Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing for the Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
Originally reported by Al Jazeera.
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