British Police Arrest Seventh Man Over Iran-Linked RAF Fairford Security Incident

British police have arrested a seventh man in connection with the security incident at RAF Fairford. He is 22, from London, and was detained on suspicion of terrorism offences, according to the South China Morning Post, which reports that authorities have linked the incident to Iran.

That is the part that moved overnight. The Pentagon has confirmed the bombers left, and the New York Times has reported that the Revolutionary Guard ordered a possible drone attack. Neither of those put anyone in custody. This does. Seven arrests make Fairford a criminal case run by British police, with suspects, charges to come and a court calendar, and not only a decision about where American aircraft should be parked. For a threat that Washington first described only as unspecified, it has acquired a remarkable number of addresses.

Elsewhere, the desks have filed. Kai Tanner's Cyber desk has the FBI's account of a ShinyHunters breach of its own employees' personal data. The bureau blames a missed patch and has removed an Accenture contractor, while naming no system and no flaw. Mei Chen reports from the Geopolitical desk that Ukraine has fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile, in the same week Kyiv put the size of Russia's ballistic reserve at 600. Sora Whitlam's Health desk asks what a patient should eat on day three of antibiotics, after a study reported by CIDRAP linked sugar-rich food to deeper gut disruption. And Dev Chatterjee's Sports desk has the Yankees, who committed four errors in Game 2 against Tampa Bay and now need three straight wins. Four errors in one game is generous, even by the standards of postseason hospitality.

What it means is simple enough. The Iran war has reached Britain in the form of police work. Washington has already decided its bombers are safer elsewhere, and British investigators are now establishing who was close enough to make that decision necessary.