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Page A7From§Eachthe matinee edition — 1 October 2026

THE WARNING

Netanyahu's grievance on Fox News: the intelligence Israel gave Britain failed to prevent Britain's sanctions

“UK-Iranian dual national arrested in connection to suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford airbase”, 1 October 2026 (Photo via New York Post — the original report)

As it ran on the front

Let me put the dates down first. That's all I'm good for before lunch.

September 27, a Sunday. Three suspicious vehicles reported heading toward RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, around quarter to one in the morning. Five men arrested in the Whelford area under the Explosives Act, then on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. A major incident declared. Eighty-five households evacuated. September 28, NBC reports an urgent investigation into whether Iran was behind the threat. October 1, Counter Terrorism Policing announces a sixth arrest: a 27-year-old British-Iranian dual national, arrested Thursday in London, two properties searched. October 1 again, the Prime Minister of Israel sits with Fox News, is asked about the recent scare in Britain, and says Israel gave the United Kingdom intelligence about an "Iranian-sponsored attack" and was sanctioned shortly after.…

…(cont) That's the order. I'm not saying anything about the order. I just needed it written down where I could see it.

Now, I wrote something else down here — hold on, it's in the coat, the other pocket — here. The New York Times: British officials have said they believe Iran played a part in planning the incident at R.A.F. Fairford. And the Washington Examiner, same day, says the intelligence was "implied to be related" to Fairford. Implied by whom, the page doesn't say. Does any of these pages give the date the intelligence arrived? Does any of them give the office in London that took it? I keep turning them over looking for it. Maybe I've got the wrong page.

Here's where I get stuck, and it's got nothing to do with any of this, so forgive me.

My car needs a fan belt. It's needed one since June, which is when my wife told me it needed one. Last winter I told my brother-in-law his back tire looked soft. Two weeks later he's sitting on the shoulder of the parkway with his flashers going. When he came by the porch after, I said: I told you about that tire. He said, you did, you told me. And then I asked him for twenty dollars toward the fan belt. He said no.

Now. He said no shortly after I brought up the tire. So I want to ask about one phrase, because it's the phrase in the receipt and not mine. Shortly after. Does shortly after mean because of? If a man helps you on a Tuesday and you turn him down on a Thursday, which of those two is the Thursday about? And here's the part I couldn't answer standing on my own porch, with the dog looking at me: did I ever once, before that tire went flat, ask my brother-in-law to put it in writing that I'd warned him? Because now the only paper on it is me, saying so.

That's my trouble with a tip. A tip either has a page with a date on it, or it has a man describing it on television. Is the Fox News interview the page? Is there anything in these receipts that tells me which day the intelligence came in, or which day the sanctions were decided? Six arrests are in here. The Explosives Act is in here. Eighty-five households walked out of their homes in the dark is in here. What's in here for the tip, besides the telling of it?

Oh — I'm sorry. You've got your coat on. One more thing and then I'm out of your hair, because it's in this pocket and I only just found it, folded up with a ticket stub.

September 8. The president of the United Arab Emirates told this same Prime Minister that the Hamas leader in Gaza was planning an operation — ten days before October 7, 2023, according to Haaretz. September 9: he sent the paper a warning letter saying he would sue for libel over it. Haaretz says it stands by its reporting.

So on the page where the warning goes out, there's a government that got sanctioned anyway. On the page where the warning comes in, there's a newspaper that got a lawyer's letter. Both pages are from the same month, and the same man is on both of them. Does either one tell me what a warning is worth?

“Six men in custody over a plot at a base Britain lent the Americans for strikes on Iran, eighty-five households walked out of their beds at one in the morning — and the loudest thing on the wire this week is a Prime Minister on Fox News doing the arithmetic on what a terror tip should have bought him in sanctions relief. That tells you what intelligence sharing is to these people: a coupon, redeemable at the counter. And three weeks ago, when a newspaper reported that he was the one who got a ten-day warning before October 7, what he mailed back was a lawyer's letter.”
Sal
“Look, Israel passed along intelligence, British police have made six arrests, that's a result — and then the sanctions come, which, I'm not drawing a line between those two things. Did I say that? That doesn't sound like me. There's no thank-you note being demanded here; we'd just like the record to reflect who called it, and the record is right there in the interview, which is a record.”
Chip

The receipts

Five arrested on explosives and terrorism offences in RAF Fairford operation
Morning Star§

FIVE men were arrested near RAF Fairford today on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences after they were reported travelling towards the airbase. Three “suspicious vehicles” were reported to police at around 12.45am, with armed officers arresting the men in the Whelford area under the Explosives Act before further arresting them…

· UAE claim they warned Israel in advance of October 7 attack from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026

· As Netanyahu Threatens Libel Suit, Haaretz ‘Stands By Its Reporting’ on 10/7 Attack from the morgue, 9 Sep 2026

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