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Foiled terror plot at bomber base signals wider threat to US military installations: expert
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Five men arrested near a key U.S. bomber base in the U.K. on Sunday may have planned a «complex,» coordinated attack with potentially far-reaching security implications for American military installations globally, a former U.S. intelligence official warned.
As counterterrorism police investigated after officers detained the suspects near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, a former Pentagon official also said President Donald Trump will ultimately be the one to decide the consequences if indeed the «trail leads to Tehran.»
The men were initially held on suspicion of offenses under Britain’s Explosives Act before being arrested on terrorism charges in connection with the airfield, a key U.S. Air Force hub and the primary European base for American strategic bombers.
On Sunday, Trump said U.S. authorities had been monitoring the suspects prior to their capture.
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Police at a road block on the road to RAF Fairford after a major incident was declared, with armed police manning a cordon near the village of Whelford in Gloucestershire, near RAF Fairford on Sunday, September 27, 2026. (Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)
«We had them under investigation,» Trump told reporters in Chicago. «They were looking to do big damage to our fort.»
«It may have been Scotland Yard. I don’t know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time, and we got them,» Trump added.
According to Sky News, counterterrorism police were investigating whether Iran is linked to the suspected bomb plot.
Former Trump White House official Morgan Murphy told Fox News Digital that British authorities are leading the investigation alongside U.S. law enforcement and intelligence.
«Every phone, bank record and rental receipt will be run through British and American intelligence, and if the trail leads to Tehran, it will be found,» Murphy clarified.
«But as American airmen and bombers seem to have been the target, Air Force investigators on the base, the FBI in London, and American intelligence will likely all work the case.»
«If conclusive evidence proves Iran is behind an attempted attack on U.S. forces, the American President will ultimately decide how Tehran pays,» Murphy added.
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A US Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber jet lands on the runway, beyond a USAF Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber jet, at RAF Fairford in southwest England on March 9, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty Images)
Former Defense Intelligence Agency official Andrew Badger told Fox News Digital the number of suspects and vehicles involved raised the possibility of a sophisticated operation.
«We are going to see elevated security protocols across Europe, across the U.K., and across the entire world for any U.S. installation,» he said.
«This is a very significant threat, and again, seeing that we had five individuals involved and three different reported vans at the scene, this could have been a very complex, highly orchestrated operation,» Badger added.
«This isn’t just some type of amateur lone wolf operation,» he said, noting Fairford’s strategic importance to the U.S. military. «Fairford is also where the U.S. houses its strategic bombers for Europe as well as the rest of the world.»
He said a potential attack posed broader risks beyond the airfield itself which he said «could have had significant security implications. It could have damaged the nearby area.»
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RAF Fairford is in the spotlight after five men were arrested near the key U.S. bomber base in the U.K. on Sunday. (Reuters)
«They could have tried to use a VBIED or a vehicle-borne explosive device where the first van could have gone off at the front gate, and then the other vans would have gone in and tried to go for the strategic bombers,» Badger said.
British authorities have not publicly identified who they believe was behind the suspected plot or announced a motive, but RAF Fairford had taken on greater strategic importance during the war with Iran.
The U.K. government previously authorized U.S. forces to use the Royal Air Force bases Fairford and Diego Garcia for limited defensive operations, including destroying Iranian missiles and launchers at their source.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) later warned that any base used to attack Iranian territory would be considered a legitimate target.
«Any base used to launch attacks on Iranian territory is a legitimate target for our forces,» the IRGC said, according to reports.
«Tehran warned London in July to keep American bombers off Fairford, and if this plot traces back to Iran, the answer must be more bombers, not fewer,» Morgan said.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and an IRGC commander general Mohsen Rezaee attend a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2026. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A local councilor told Reuters there had been a recent security alert at Fairford and surveillance had been stepped up.
«So there was a specific threat about six weeks ago from the Iranians on this base. At the time, there was increased surveillance around the area,» he told the outlet.
Badger, however, cautioned against assuming Iran was responsible while pointing to other potential threats.
«This could be Iran trying to gain strategic leverage in negotiations, but there are other actors as well,» Badger added.
«But there’s Russia, who’s been launching a campaign of gray zone or hybrid warfare attacks across Europe, as well as Islamic extremists, which are still a significant threat here in the U.K.»
«Was this some type of retaliation by Iran to perhaps try to gain leverage or to try to inflict a cost for the U.S. withdrawing from these negotiations? Again, we don’t know for sure, but it is a possibility,» Badger said.
Badger also pointed to RAF Welford, a major U.S. ammunition storage facility that primarily supports operations at RAF Fairford.
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Members of the US military offload equipment from a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy at RAF Fairford in south west England on March 6, 2026. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given approval for Washington to use the bases of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford in southwest England to bomb Iranian missile sites, after several Gulf countries were targeted by Iranian retaliations. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)
«RAF Welford is actually the second-largest weapons and ammunition depot in all of Europe,» Badger said, noting that the facility where the U.S. stores ammunition «could have been a target as well.»
«Other bases across Europe, including European and U.S. partners, have already been on a heightened state of alert,» Badger continued.
«But of course, after this attack, I think they’re going to be in an even more heightened state. You’re going to have more frequent security patrols.»
«There are reports that RAF Fairford was put onto what’s called the Delta alert, which is the highest state of security alert within the military base system,» Badger said.
«So this is basically that ‘an imminent terrorist attack is inbound,’» he concluded.
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When Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could not say Iran is a bigger threat to the U.S. than Israel, it was a warning of elections in a post-Oct. 7 world, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton Klein says.
American and even Israeli leaders are failing to show strength against hate as anti-Zionist voices gain power, Klein told Digital in a Monday interview.
«Ilhan Omar is one of the most vicious Jew haters in America,» Klein said, speaking on behalf of himself and not as the leader of the ZOA. «And it is very painful to me that the leaders of the Democratic Party have not continuously and vigorously condemned her» and other antisemitic political leaders, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
They are not merely «pro-Palestinian» voices, Klein says: «They’re anti-Israel voices. They don’t really give a damn about the Palestinians either. They just hate Jews in the Jewish state. That’s my opinion.»
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The ZOA is a 501(c)(3) that is unpermitted by law to talk candidacies as opposed to their positions, Klein stressed, before unloading on the voices that take aim at Israel and ostensibly handing political power to the antisemites and terrorists – which even includes Israeli elections just two weeks from now.
«Viciously antisemitic members of Congress have not been condemned in any significant way by the Democratic Party,» he continued. «So it’s disappointing to me as an American that we don’t condemn people who are filled with hate and not filled with what’s best for America.»
Anti-Israel rhetoric has moved from the political fringe into elected office, he said, warning that Democrats have not forcefully condemned members of their own party who he says traffic in antisemitism.
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It has even forced Israeli leaders to move toward a dangerous level of «appeasement,» according to Klein.
«I blame the Jewish leaders and the Israeli leaders themselves: You might find that surprising,» he said. «The Israeli government over the years has not made it clear that the Hamas Charter has two clauses that say, murder every Jew on earth, destroy Israel. And, most recently, El-Sayed not only refused to clearly name Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, as a greater threat than Israel during a Michigan Senate debate, «he said worse,» Klein lamented.
«He said both of them are dangerous to America, and he said Israel is as evil as Hamas,» he continued.
«The Democratic Party has not condemned him. Worse, [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer endorsed him, has given him tens of millions of dollars to run,» Klein said. «Elissa Slotkin, the senator from Michigan, Jewish senator, has endorsed him. And [Dana] Nessel, the attorney general, Jewish attorney general has endorsed them. This is disgraceful.»
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«If this guy was unequivocally anti-Black, they would have all condemned him. Why don’t they condemn people who hate Jews for no reason whatsoever? It’s very, very frightening,» he said.
During his push to hold the Michigan Senate seat for Democrats, Abdul El-Sayed described Judaism as «a light unto the world,» expressing deep gratitude for the Jewish community’s contributions.
«My commitment to Jewish safety is equivalent to the commitment to the safety of my own daughters,» he said.
Klein also weighed in on Mamdani for declining to condemn the phrase «globalize the intifada,» a call to violence against Jews around the world, he warned.
«Mamdani was asked to condemn the phrase, globalize the intifada … he refused to condemn this phrase,» Klein said. «This guy is a monster. He is a jihadist Jew-hater supporter of terrorism.»
Despite the criticism, Mamdani has pledged to «protect our Jewish neighbors» and stated his commitment to «mourning with them, and committing to fight against evil and antisemitism.»
As Mamdani has done explicitly, Israel is often portrayed as the aggressor and perpetrator of a so-called «genocide» in Gaza, Klein observed, stating that the reality is those atrocities were committed by Hamas terrorists Oct. 7, when terrorists invaded Israel specifically to kill «Jews,» not merely «people,» Klein said.
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«They went in house to house, door to door, murdering every single family,» Klein said. «Can you imagine? They go in and there’s a mother and a father and children sitting, they’re scared out of their minds, and they shoot them to death. And oftentimes they raped the mother first and then they murdered them. Then they put babies into ovens and killed them that way. It’s just a nightmare what they did.»
«Yes, their goal is to murder every single Jew. In fact, the leaders of Hamas have said repeatedly: ‘We will have many, many more Oct. 7s; you wait, many, more Oct. 7s,» he added.
Klein said any future Israeli government after the Oct. 27 elections must be «as tough as nails, responding with overwhelming force for any terrorism,» and do as the «the people demanded: destroy Hamas.»
Klein warned, however, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be weakened politically if he is forced to form an alliance with left-of-center parties after Israel’s elections.
«The polls show that it’s likely that Netanyahu will win again, but he may have to have a broader coalition to bring in people from the left of center,» Klein warned. «I think the odds are high Bibi will continue to be the prime minister. But his hands will be somewhat tied if he’s forced, and I think he will be forced, to bring people from left of the center to have coalition.»
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Asked whether the process of forming a coalition could weaken Israel’s response, Klein answered, «Yes.»
«Yes, because some of the left-of-center people are appeasement-oriented,» Klein said. «They still believe just give the Arabs more, it’ll be all right.»
«And people have to understand, and these people don’t quite understand, this is not a war about land or about a Palestinian state. This is a war about destroying Israel and killing Jews.»
He argued that Israel should reject further concessions and project strength until its enemies accept that the Jewish state cannot be destroyed and the decades of calls for a Palestinian state are a proven failure.
«They had it; they controlled it,» Klein said. «They could have just said a new country of Palestine has now emerged. No, because the goal is not that. The goal is Israel’s destruction.»
«Only when they understand that, that it’s hopeless for them to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, only then might they finally lay down their arms and say, we give up.»
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Macron rechazó la violencia que sacude a Francia: “Los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”
El presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, afirmó que “nada justifica” ni “excusa” la violencia desatada durante las protestas en Francia y advirtió que “los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”.
Lo hizo en un discurso a la Nación transmitido por la televisión francesa, después de dos días consecutivos de saqueos, disturbios y choques entre manifestantes y fuerzas de seguridad en movilizaciones contra el costo de vida.
“Nada lo justifica, nada lo explica, nada lo excusa”, dijo Macron en su discurso televisado. Además, llamó a no confundir a los alborotadores con los cientos de miles de personas que manifestaron pacíficamente el sábado contra el encarecimiento de la vida.
También subrayó su disposición al diálogo por las reivindicaciones de los manifestantes.
Las protestas dejaron casi 2400 detenidos y 1000 policías heridos, según el ministerio del Interior.
“Violencia inédita”
Macron reconoció que los servicios de información de la policía subestimaron la violencia de la jornada de protestas del sábado.
Denunció además que las fuerzas del orden “pese a su profesionalismo tuvieron que sufrir una violencia inédita en muchas ciudades”.
Según afirmó, pidió al Ejecutivo que “saque todas las lecciones en materia de información y de anticipación para que eso no se vuelva a producir” una situación de este tipo.
“Los que destruyeron deben pagar, los que saquearon, deben devolver. Los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”, alertó.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens more seriously injured after a fire broke out during military training at a base in Alberta, calling it one of the country’s worst peacetime military tragedies on domestic soil.
The deadly fire erupted Saturday at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where fierce winds fueled flames that spread beyond the installation and into surrounding rural areas. Canadian military officials said there were no indications of terrorism, though the cause remained under investigation.
Carney said in a televised address that the families of the four service members killed had been notified and that the situation was still evolving.
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Paramedics load an injured person into an ambulance at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
The prime minister said those affected included reservists and soldiers from Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, one of Canada’s oldest military regiments. Personnel had traveled from bases across the country to participate in training exercises at Wainwright.
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a statement on Parliament Hill following a deadly fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta, in Ottawa on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty initially confirmed fatalities and injuries but did not provide a casualty count, Fox News Digital previously reported.
«I cannot recall such an incident in my short time for sure as a minister, but I cannot recall an incident like this in recent memory,» McGuinty told reporters.
The exact number of injured service members remained unclear Sunday, with victims receiving treatment at hospitals in Wainwright, Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary.
Several hospitals across Alberta activated a «Code Orange,» an emergency designation for mass-casualty incidents, as medical personnel scrambled to treat the wounded.
Paramedics work at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
«This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton,» Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. «It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It’s a disaster.»
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said officers responded to reports of a fire in a training area at the base shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday. Firefighters battled intense winds, with gusts reaching up to 62 mph, as flames spread beyond the installation.
By late Saturday, local officials said the fire was being held and that property and critical infrastructure were protected. No evacuation order had been issued for nearby residents.
McGuinty said the RCMP was involved in investigating the incident, describing the situation as «very, very active and delicate.»
Carney announced that flags would fly at half-staff on federal buildings nationwide in honor of those killed and injured. He also praised emergency crews who battled the flames through the night.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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