- 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 NEW: The three vans found outside RFF Fairford two days ago did not contain "viable explosives", according to UK police
It is suspected that the men engaged in other forms of criminal activity, such as fuel smuggling.
However, what is known for certain is that RAF Fairford entered the 'DELTA' security level the night before the vans were discovered, and that an attack was considered imminent.
Either the British intelligence services misinterpreted the threat, or a real attack was indeed about to happen but was prevented by the capture of the wrong guys - in which case an alleged terrorist cell may still be at large.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, claimed today that a "foreign actor" was "clearly involved" in the incident.