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RAF Fairford organiser ‘orchestrated terror plot on Facetime’
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 3703 stories, and number 275 of 1575 in News.Part of a bigger story
RAF Fairford: 3 developments since Wed 11 Nov.Why it’s moving
1File photo: RAF Fairford
The RAF Fairford terror plot was masterminded by an Iraqi national over FaceTime, US officials say. The Department of Justice (DoJ) yesterday announced Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi nat
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is GB News’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: RAF Fairford
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. It is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force operations.4
The bigger story: RAF Fairford
3 developments since Wed 11 Nov.
- US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks at RAF Fairford and other sites
1 newsroom. Linked by RAF Fairford, charge, terror
RAF Fairford organiser ‘orchestrated terror plot on Facetime’
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The story so far
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First with it: France 24, 8 hr 5 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Over
- 13.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 11.1 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 9:26am AEDT | France 24 | 1 |
| 5:31pm AEDT | The Mirror | 2 |
| 8:32pm AEDT | GB News | 3 |
| 10:58pm AEDT | The Independent | 4 |
Bigger than 96% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 11.1 hr; a typical News story that gets there takes 7.9 hr.
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Sources and credits
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Photo: Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)
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The Independent: RAF Fairford organiser ‘orchestrated terror plot on Facetime’
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GB News: RAF Fairford terror plot mastermind 'orchestrated attacks from prison cell on FaceTime'
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Background: “RAF Fairford”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
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