An armoured vehicle patrols behind a security fence at RAF Fairford airbase
The RAF Fairford base in Fairford, England, on 28 September. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
The RAF Fairford base in Fairford, England, on 28 September. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
US prosecutors charge Iranian operative allegedly responsible for UK air force base attack

New indictment claims Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while in US custody

US federal prosecutors have said that an Iranian operative jailed in New York was responsible for the foiled attack on a UK air force base where American B-1 bombers were stationed.