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Maintain Awareness Tuesday and Wednesday-Sundance thinks RAF base kerfluffle was a rehearsal-hence the evac of aircraft
2026-10-06
[ConservativeTreehouse] It’s likely nothing unless you travel a lot. However, it would be prudent to maintain heightened situational awareness on Tuesday (6th) and Wednesday (7th).

There is a better than average likelihood the RAF Fairford base attack was going to coincide on Oct 6 or 7 with what the French provocateurs are calling a “National Day of Action.” The U.K terrorist network was simply caught in the rehearsal phase.

October 7th is the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.

The “Red‑Green Alliance” refers to a tactical partnership between far‑left movements (“red”) and Islamist movements (“green”), rooted in shared opposition to Western institutions, capitalism, the U.S., and Israel, rather than shared values.

It is not a single organization, but rather a recurring pattern historically, especially during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and in modern Western activism and politics. The western media support the RED side, and the Muslim Brotherhood represents the GREEN side.

Islamists love to celebrate anniversaries and random dates they assign to historic grievances. The Brotherhood exploits the radical elements’ general lack of intelligence and simultaneously stimulates the autonomic emotional nerve. Spend any amount of time talking to a Turk, and they can cite multiple grievances with dates. For multiple years Turkey has been in a co-dependent relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood (AQAP, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS, etc.).

Turkish President Erdogan, a NATO member, manages the Brotherhood sensibility better than most.
Eh? President Erdogan closely follows the Brüderbund template and supports fellow Brotherhooders Hamas, both in Turkey and in Gaza — he doesn’t fight against it.
Jordan’s King Abdullah also does it well; while Egypt’s President Fattah al-Sisi gave up trying and just banned them outright.
Of course al-Sisi banned them — they’re competition. He heads the military faction that displaced the Brotherhood over a decade ago.
Qatar is the banking agency for the Muslim Brotherhood. Oman and Yemen have severe factions as noted in the FlyDubai airline incident and the Houthis respectively. In Africa, AQIM, another Brotherhood chapter,
…Al Qaeda in the Maghreb/North Africa is Muslim Brotherhood? When did that happen?
carries the banner for the greater Palestinian cause, the primary grievance for 2026.

In France the Palestinian flag is being waved in each of the migrant uprisings and riots. While in the U.K the hatred for Israel is a sentiment second only to the support for the Palestinians.

Europe has imported millions of radical extremists. The background for the RAF Fairford terrorist event did not happen overnight; the sentiment has been building. However, that said, Obama/Biden imported mass numbers of Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, so it would be well worth paying attention as the next 48 hours of anniversary celebration may indeed result in some form of Islamic terrorist attack.

Keep this context and perspective with you over the next few days.

Remember, if you see something – make sure you are in a personally secure response posture and then alert authorities to your concern.

If you are in the U.K or France, better to stay inside.

Courtesy of badanov:
The Lancers have flown away
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] The Lancers have departed. The US has withdrawn 12 B-1 Lancer bombers from the British air force base at Fairford "due to a security threat." This follows the detention of five British citizens who were preparing something near the base. Most likely, a false flag operation was being prepared (either the British or the Israelis), which would likely be blamed on Iran, in order to create an additional pretext for the upcoming escalation of the war in the Middle East.
An interesting take, more imaginative that one expects from an intelligence analyst...
Most likely, this was carried out without the US's knowledge, which is why the aircraft that participated in the strikes on Iran were urgently ferried back to the US. However, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some kind of false flag attack will be organized in the near future to justify a new attack on Iran, most likely after the US midterm elections.

Although it's possible that it will be carried out before the elections, to justify Trump's failure in the Middle East, as if to say, "look at the evil we're fighting."

Another important point: there won't be three carrier strike groups in the Middle East. CENTCOM announced that the USS George Bush's carrier strike group is leaving the theater and will be replaced by a carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt. A carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln is also operating in the theater. While they can certainly fire at Iran, this is certainly not enough for a "decisive victory."

Especially since the US has lost the ability to operate some bases in the region.
Related:
Fairford: 2026-10-05 Good Morning
Fairford: 2026-10-05 US Air Force removes all bombers from RAF Fairford, Pentagon says, because of unspecified threat from Iran
Fairford: 2026-10-05 US removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack
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