BND - UK-Iranian national released on bail over suspected plot at RAF base

🗞️ Story file #26

UK-Iranian national released on bail over suspected plot at RAF base

Oct 3, 8 AM ET to Oct 5, 3 AM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏6 · 4 · 3🐘left · center · right
1.8 dayson the front pages
16front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
1 of 3parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 3, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 4, 1 PM ETpeak: on 16 front pages
Oct 4, 7 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 5, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 4, 9 AM to Oct 5, 3 AM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax, PBS NewsHour)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Newsmax (5 wordings): “Dual UK-Iranian National Released on Bail over Suspected Plot against US-run Military Base” → “UK-Iranian National Released Over Suspected Plot at RAF”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Man arrested in Fairford air base investigation released on bail” → “Man arrested in Fairford air base investigation released on bail - reuters.com”
The Hill (2 wordings): “UK-Iranian dual national arrested in US airbase RAF Fairford incident, police say” → “Man arrested for alleged terror threat on US airbase RAF Fairford released on bail”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating