00:00The United States confirmed on Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the RAF Fairford Air Base,
00:07which has been at the center of a counterterrorism probe after a mysterious security incident last month.
00:13Police were called to the base in southwest England on 27 September,
00:17after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in quote,
00:22suspicious activity.
00:24The scare forced evacuations at 85 homes near the airbase,
00:28which was used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran.
00:33Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans,
00:36but instead, a quantity of petrol was recovered according to counterterrorism police.
00:42Speculation about the motives behind the incident ranged from terror threat to fuel thievery,
00:47as energy prices in the UK hit record highs this week.
00:52UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said there were strong indications that Iran played a part in the incident,
00:57a charge rejected by Tehran.
01:00Six London-based Bretons arrested in the incident,
01:04including a UK-Iranian dual national,
01:06were released on bail pending further investigation.
01:09The Pentagon confirmed in a statement that all its aircraft have now redeployed to their home stations in the US.
01:16They were at the base since March,
01:18after the UK,
01:19under former Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
01:21granted them permission to use it for quote,
01:24specific defensive operations into Iran.
