{"id":166282,"date":"2026-09-28T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/marco-rubio-links-foreign-actor-to-plot-against-british-base\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:19:02","slug":"marco-rubio-links-foreign-actor-to-plot-against-british-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/marco-rubio-links-foreign-actor-to-plot-against-british-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio links foreign actor to plot against British base"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marco Rubio points to foreign involvement in plot against air base in the United Kingdom<\/h2>\n\n<p>United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed this Monday the involvement of a foreign actor in the recent attempted terrorist attack targeting the British airbase RAF Fairford. This facility is of vital importance, as it is frequently used by U.S. forces for strategic operations.<\/p>\n\n<p>Although Rubio remained reserved about the specific identity of those involved, he stressed that Washington has worked in close coordination with United Kingdom authorities to dismantle the threat and arrest those responsible. The official avoided offering additional details due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details about the counter-terrorism operation<\/h2>\n\n<p>The security situation reached a critical point last Sunday in the county of Gloucestershire, in southwest England. The actions of the security forces included the following key points:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The arrest of five individuals linked to the alleged plot.<\/li><li>The preventive evacuation of 85 homes located in the vicinity of the RAF Fairford base.<\/li><li>The deployment of specialized counter-terrorism units due to the suspicion of an explosive attack.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The United States has worked closely with British authorities to neutralize the suspects and ensure the security of the military installation.<\/p><cite>Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategic importance of RAF Fairford<\/h2>\n\n<p>The relevance of the Fairford base has grown notably this year. The facility was enabled under authorization from former Prime Minister Keir Starmer to facilitate U.S. defensive actions, especially those aimed at the neutralization of Iranian missile installations.<\/p>\n\n<p>In light of the events that occurred, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, expressed his support for the British security forces, praising the rapid intervention that allowed for the capture of the five alleged suspects before they could carry out their plans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio points to foreign involvement in plot against air base in the United Kingdom United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed this Monday the involvement of a foreign actor in the recent attempted terrorist attack targeting the British airbase RAF Fairford. This facility is of vital importance, as it is frequently used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[4006,14097,2821,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-166282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-security","9":"tag-terrorism","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}