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🇬🇧🇮🇷 Five suspects, storage cans of fuel, no explosives, and everyone out on bail within hours: the RAF Fairford "plot" Washington says it had under review for months Larry Johnson has a competing theory, offered with a straight face. Five guys setting up a covert hamburger sta
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🇬🇧🇮🇷 Five suspects, storage cans of fuel, no explosives, and everyone out on bail within hours: the RAF Fairford "plot" Washington says it had under review for months Larry Johnson has a competing theory, offered with a straight face. Five guys setting up a covert hamburger stand to spike the cholesterol of American airmen. He admits it's ridiculous, then points out it explains the evidence about as well as the official version does. No explosives, fuel cans, one suspect reportedly calling 999 himself, and a British security service that has confirmed nothing while the US administration describes a serious terror plot. His sharper point is definitional. Had anyone actually hit a base full of B-1 bombers, that's an act of war against a military target, and Iran has no reason to bother when Hormuz is doing the work for it. If Tehran wanted to touch American bombers, it wouldn't send five men with gas cans. @NewSonof @WeTheBrandon
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