US pulls bombers out of UK's Fairford airbase after arrests

A week after several men were detained at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base in the UK's Fairford on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, a Pentagon official announced that the United States had removed its B-1 bombers from the base northwest of London. On Sunday, aircraft monitoring sites showed the B-1 aircraft flying out of the UK base. "While operational security precluded us from ​confirming the movement of our assets and forces ​in real-time, ‌we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home ‌stations in the United States," a Pentagon spokesman wrote ‌in ​a statement. A dozen B-1 bombers had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the British airbase used by the US.