RAF Fairford

Jon

Suspicion of explosives offenses, suspicion of terrorist offenses. Anyone else struggling to understand how they could be released on bail?

Flaneur

Lads from the smoke go up the country to nick red diesel from farm storage tanks.

They put the name of a bogus fuel company on their vans just in case they're stopped, and asked why they have barrels of diesel on board. (We're just delivering fuel, honest guv).

The problem was the lads were not aware of the current geo-political situation, or that diesel fuel is a constituent part in bomb making.

Cat litter is used as a filter to remove red dye from industrial diesel and may well have also been in the vans.

Large bags of cat litter look like the fertiliser that is also another bomb making material.

Some might say "Would fuel thieves travel that far to rob a bit of red diesel though?"

I say "I don't think the transport costs would be an issue."

Jon

Flaneur Is that something you’ve read in a reputable outlet or a scenario you think might be plausible?
It is plausible but if that’s the case wouldn’t it be more prudent to say they’ve been released on bail on suspicion of attempted theft of diesel rather than have the public wondering what the fuck is going on when the press are reporting they’ve been released on bail but are been investigated on suspicion of explosives and terrorist offenses?
I mean, I’d sleep a bit sounder in my bed if I lived in that village and it turned out to be diesel thieves and not terrorists. Farage making capital of it too.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/28/raf-fairford-representatives-sceptical-suspected-bomb-plot

Harvest

Hope this is true, Trump will look more of a tit than he does already.

Mitaman

I must admit, the ‘bail’ decision did leave me scratching my head..

Bod

I've read about the Diesel theft and you can see the pictures with the bogus fuel company sign on the vans. They wouldn't be letting them out on bail if they were suspected terrorists

Jon

Bod They wouldn't be letting them out on bail if they were suspected terrorists

I think you’re right but surely it would put people more at ease if they released a statement saying something like at this stage terrorism is not suspected and police are working on the theory they are suspected diesel bandits, something like that rather than leaving it to internet speculation?

They’re out quicker than climate activists who blocked the traffic.

Loose_Lips

Obviously a double false flag operation where there really were terrorist capitalising on the idiocy of red fuel diesel thieves.

Err...yeah. I think.

Yes, bail on suspension of theft would have been more sensible if that's the actual cause.

Raposa

The surveillance theory must be a load of bollocks too.
They wouldn’t ,or shouldn’t have got within ten miles of any RAF base with suspected devices if that were the case.
Tip off from a local farmer wasn’t it?

Harvest

The best summary I can give to this is that it all sounds a bit rum.

space

This is getting crazier... One of the arrested men also called the police to report what was going on. And Burnham has chaired a COBRA meeting in response to the incident. Iran still in the frame. One of the perps an obvious inside man.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/29/raf-fairford-police-uk-counter-terrorism?CMP=share_btn_url

Misura

space ...if so, you'd surmise that he wasn't affiliated to/working with any of the British security services, as he would've been tracked by them & intercepted, to make it look like a well planned security operation.

Having to phone the plod on 999, when you & the gang are plotted up at the end of the runway in moody Transits, wearing Balaclava's and carrying a fair few gallons of sans plomb, looks to be either the work of a freewheeling foreign agency or a committed amateur shit stirrer or the sequel to Four Lions.

Misura

....I'd also add that if this was a genuine state sponsored attempted terrorist attack, you'd be wanting your money back. 🙄

Loose_Lips

It's cheaper to letting them caught shambolically.

Far better it's all confused and a mess.

The X traffic alone is chaotic.