UK anti-terrorism police said Tuesday two men have been charged with national security offences after an incident last month at a British airbase used by the United States, linking the scare to Iran.\n<\/p>\n
The head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said two British men aged 24 have been charged: one with assisting a foreign intelligence service, believed to be in Iran, and another with entering a prohibited place\u00a0for a purpose \u201cprejudicial\u201d to the UK.\n<\/p>\n
This is the first time that anyone has been charged over the incident, after police arrested seven suspects in the days afterwards, before releasing them on bail.\n<\/p>\n
Police were called to the Royal Air Force\u2019s Fairford base in southwest England in the early hours of September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several white vans engaged in \u201csuspicious\u201d activity.<\/p>\n
Only days later the United States abruptly withdrew all its B-1 bombers from the base.<\/p>\n
A week ago police said they had re-arrested two of the suspects, one of whom has now been charged.\n<\/p>\n
Police charged 24-year-old Nouman Essghir, with entering or approaching a \u201cprohibited place\u201d for a purpose \u201cprejudicial\u201d to the interests of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Essghir was arrested at the scene in Gloucestershire and then released on bail, before police re-arrested him a week ago. <\/p>\n
The police chief said the charge against Essghir related to \u201csuspected activity\u201d more than a month earlier, on Saturday 22 August, without giving any details.\n<\/p>\n
The second man who has been charged, 24-year-old Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, was arrested after being interviewed under caution over the last week, police said.\n<\/p>\n
He has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service. \u201cIn this case, we believe that country to be Iran,\u201d the police service said.\n<\/p>\n
Both of the charged men live in Westminster, a district in London.\n<\/p>\n
Six other men remain on bail, all living in London, and aged between 23 and 25. One of these is a dual British and Iranian national.\n<\/p>\n
AFP<\/p>\n
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