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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 custodyUS federal prosecutors have said that an Iranian operative jailed in New York was responsible for the foiled attack on a UK air force…

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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.

A new indictment alleged that Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while in custody and then transmitted plans – using coded messages in calls to his family – to two co-conspirators to buy large quantities of chemicals that could be used as explosives in an attack on the RAF Fairford base in September.

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