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This is where the light of the next day starts to tease out more details.

She said she'd called the base hotline number all the Whelford residents had, gotten no response, then another line - still no answer. And finally the British version of our 911, which is 999, and that's when the Gloucestershire police responded.

I held off commenting on the base hotline side of it, because surely it wasn't our Air Force running that, and it turns out I was correct. It was a British Ministry of Defense line, and aren't they catching hell for that today.
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There's another mystery, and this one has yet to be teased apart. Initial reports all said that a call came in to the Gloucestershire police at 12:45 AM about the suspicious vans, and when this intrepid farmer's interview broke late yesterday afternoon in the Telegraph telling her hair-raising story, everyone assumed they were one and the same. I know I did.

But, hello.

The farmer's encounter didn't happen until almost an hour later - nearly 1:45 am.
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Everyone in that village, where many of them work on base or know someone locally who does, knew the base security threat level had been raised in the days immediately preceding the foiled attack.

Five men arrested over a suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford have been released on bail.

The men, who are all British nationals aged 23 to 25, were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences, after three vans were discovered 400m from the Gloucestershire air base.

The suspects are from the London areas of Camden, Westminster and Willesden, police confirmed on Monday.

i'm glad this was addressed above, because I saw it and could only stare at it in disbelief.
Is unblock detached from reality?