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UK claims to have foiled 'terrorist' plot against airbase

The Great Zaganza said:
Sorry, is your point that the war with Iran is over and the B1s are no longer needed?
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Why do you have an "and" in there? These are two different questions. The latter doesn't depend on the former.

I don't know if keeping the B1s at Fairford would still be useful. Neither do you. I also don't know when or why the decision was made to remove them. Neither do you.
 
Ziggurat said:
There has been no official statement of why the bombers left Fairford, or even exactly when they left. The timing of the announcement that they left has led people to speculate as to the reason, but it it is only speculation at this point. We don't even have confirmation that the withdrawl started after this incident.
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Ziggurat said:
The B1 bombers deployed to Fairford for the war. They weren't stationed there beforehand, one would not expect them to remain there indefinitely.
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The planes reportedly took off while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the US.
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Evidently a well-planned, orderly withdrawal.
 
Ziggurat said:
Why do you have an "and" in there? These are two different questions. The latter doesn't depend on the former.

I don't know if keeping the B1s at Fairford would still be useful. Neither do you. I also don't know when or why the decision was made to remove them. Neither do you.
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but what do YOU think?
 
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The Great Zaganza said:
but what do YOU think?
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I really don't know. It's possible that this move was prompted by security concerns from this incident. It's also possible that this withdrawal was planned beforehand. It's also possible that that the withdrawal was planned beforehand but accelerated because of this incident. But it's all just speculation, and none of it is really informed speculation either.
 
US President Donald Trump has said the United States moved its bombers out of RAF Fairford because of "some threats" to the base.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers - thought to be about a dozen B-1s - from the base back to their home stations in America.

Speaking to reporters as he departed for Nebraska on Monday, Trump said the US knew of a "threat", which led them to move the bombers...

While speaking to a gaggle of reporters outside the White House in Washington, Trump was asked if there was a "specific threat" that led the US to pull it's bombers from the airbase.

Trump replied: "Yeah I think we can say that. They didn't fly out by accident.

"There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit. Not very far."

He added that Washington "actually knows the people that made the threat", but did not confirm who...

www.bbc.co.uk

Donald Trump says a 'threat' led US to move bombers from RAF Fairford

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Andy_Ross said:
US President Donald Trump has said the United States moved its bombers out of RAF Fairford because of "some threats" to the base.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers - thought to be about a dozen B-1s - from the base back to their home stations in America.

Speaking to reporters as he departed for Nebraska on Monday, Trump said the US knew of a "threat", which led them to move the bombers...

While speaking to a gaggle of reporters outside the White House in Washington, Trump was asked if there was a "specific threat" that led the US to pull it's bombers from the airbase.

Trump replied: "Yeah I think we can say that. They didn't fly out by accident.

"There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit. Not very far."

He added that Washington "actually knows the people that made the threat", but did not confirm who...

www.bbc.co.uk

Donald Trump says a 'threat' led US to move bombers from RAF Fairford

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Hope they found a place "not very far" where there are no white vans. Or they will just have to move them again.
 
There's a bit of a disconnect between "... a little bit. Not very far" and all the way home. I guess we need to wait for one of the gang who still has his faculties to tell us what's actually happened.

This is a weird story which keeps hinting it's moving off in new directions. It'll be fascinating to eventually discover what was going on. Of course the thing the Americans (and everyone else) must be very keen to avoid is an "operation spiderweb" type of attack, where the Ukrainians managed to release a kamikaze drone swarm next to a Russian airbase. That sort of thing could happen almost anywhere in the world there isn't a very large exclusion zone around an airbase.
 
Andy_Ross said:
US President Donald Trump has said the United States moved its bombers out of RAF Fairford because of "some threats" to the base.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers - thought to be about a dozen B-1s - from the base back to their home stations in America.

Speaking to reporters as he departed for Nebraska on Monday, Trump said the US knew of a "threat", which led them to move the bombers...

While speaking to a gaggle of reporters outside the White House in Washington, Trump was asked if there was a "specific threat" that led the US to pull it's bombers from the airbase.

Trump replied: "Yeah I think we can say that. They didn't fly out by accident.

"There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit. Not very far."

He added that Washington "actually knows the people that made the threat", but did not confirm who...
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You wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.
 
Sandy Tregent
@SandyofSuffolk

The US are withdrawing all bombers from RAF Fairford.

Thanks to the Labour government, we are being left without allies, protection and a decent defence.

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Ben Leo
@Benleo
The UK government needs to come clean about what’s going on here. Their response so far has been shameful.

It’s now being suggested there could be Iranian drones in the UK which were set to target US bombers at RAF Fairford.

Everything else should be dropped. This is serious.

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