UK claims to have foiled 'terrorist' plot against airbase

[Jack by the hedge]

It's always the quiet ones...

Ed Davey would have made the announcement in a photo op straddling the bomb like Slim Pickens.

 

[Mojo]

I was just going to post, if the US did pull out all their bombers because of the vans, they have shown Iran how to defeat them without firing a shot.

This week's Private Eye is calling it "Operation Epic Funk".

 

[Steve]

This week's Private Eye is calling it "Operation Epic Funk".

Shouldn't that n be a c?

 

[smartcooky]

Allison Pearson
@AllisonPearson
The US has already given up on the British military - weak, underfunded, irrelevant- apart from the SAS whom the Americans revere.

Now, the US has withdrawn bombers from RAF Fairford because they don’t trust Brits to control the Islamist threat.

Link

But she has a point about weak and underfunded.

The Royal Navy: On Course for National Embarrassment

The UK has accepted it no longer rules the waves, but the dismal condition of the Royal Navy has caused national shock. Can it change?

cepa.org

 

[smartcooky]

Ed Davey would have made the announcement in a photo op straddling the bomb like Slim Pickens.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Two men re-arrested: One of the Brits from the original group of five, and the dual nationality British/Iranian guy who was arrested in London.

No other details so far. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm26z110vzko