The outside desk

The outside desk

A report in the "New York Times": the evacuation of the bombers from the Payford Air Base in Great Britain was done with unusual speed over the weekend, after American commanders received new information about an Iranian-backed plot against the base. The urgency was so great that some of the bombers and aircrews took off on their way to the United States while aerial refueling planes called in to assist them were still in the process of being prepared