In a chilling revelation, the U.S. Justice Department has unsealed a federal indictment detailing a plot by three Iran-backed terror suspects to attack a British air base housing American troops, with the aim of using vans packed with fuel to carry out the assault. The indictment charges Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and Mohammad Ali Al-Hassani with terrorism-related offenses linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Kata’ib Hizballah. Prosecutors allege that Al-Hassani directed associates in the United Kingdom to conduct surveillance of RAF Fairford, a base used by U.S. military aircraft and personnel, paying an individual to record the base’s perimeter. The suspects’ associates then acquired three vans and barrels of fuel, researched chemical accelerants, and purchased metal objects for shrapnel, disguising the vans with commercial decals to resemble fuel delivery and swimming pool supply vehicles. On September 26th, Al-Hassani allegedly ordered the vans driven towards the base, but at least two were stopped by a security roadblock, preventing their advance. British authorities recovered the vehicles and arrested their occupants. The indictment further details that Al-Saadi, while imprisoned in New York on separate terrorism charges, allegedly coordinated the operation through coded telephone calls with family members in Iraq, instructing them to provide money for the plot. This alleged attack follows a series of earlier attacks in Europe, which prosecutors claim the defendants helped organize on behalf of an Iran-aligned terrorist network, targeting synagogues, Jewish organizations, ambulances, and an Israeli embassy, and including the stabbing of two Jewish men in London. Al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, was previously arrested abroad and transferred to U.S. custody, having been accused of directing approximately 18 attacks in Europe and attempting to coordinate an attack on a Manhattan synagogue. The three defendants face serious charges including conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, financing terrorism, and conspiracy to bomb a place of public use, with some charges carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Adapted from: U.S. News Today on Fox News
