The US Justice Department announced an eight-count indictment over an alleged September plot at the British airbase. One defendant is in US custody; prosecutors did not disclose the other two men’s whereabouts.
The US Justice Department on 10 November announced an eight-count indictment naming Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani over their alleged roles in a September plot at RAF Fairford in southwest England.
The indictment adds the Fairford allegations to a case against al-Saadi first detailed by US authorities in May and names the other two men as defendants. The US military has used the base for operations against Iran.
In the earlier case, US authorities accused al-Saadi of directing and urging attacks on US and Israeli interests and the killing of Americans and Jews, allegedly in retaliation for the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The charging document alleges that al-Hassani directed unnamed people to drive vans to the base, some carrying barrels of fuel. It says he had earlier paid the group to disguise the vans as fuel-delivery vehicles and buy metal objects that could be used as shrapnel, or fragments scattered by an explosion, France 24, with AFP, said. Prosecutors also allege that al-Saadi passed coded messages to al-Hassani and Mohajeri to coordinate ahead of the plot.
All three men face charges including conspiracy to provide material support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pro-Iranian group Kataeb Hezbollah, as well as charges of conspiracy to provide and providing material support for acts of terrorism and conspiracy to bomb a place of public use. Al-Saadi also faces charges of attempted acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries and attempted destruction of property by fire or explosive.
Police were called to Fairford after a local farmer described suspicious activity involving a group of men and several white vans. Days after the incident, the US withdrew all its B-1 bombers from the base.
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In October, British police charged two British men with national security offenses related to the incident. One was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service believed to be Iranian; the other was charged with entering a prohibited place for a purpose described as prejudicial to the UK.
Al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, has been in US custody since May and is jailed in New York on terrorism charges. Mohajeri is an Iranian national and al-Hassani is an Iraqi national. Prosecutors did not disclose their whereabouts.
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