Michael Stauber

German Linux specialist & programmer in Colombia. Professional eye-roller at 'suicidal empathy' of the west, geopolitics, history & dark humor. - 2:191

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

I spent over two decades in counterterrorism and I’m still involved in many ways, so here are my views on what I see has happened over the past 24-36 hours in the UK:

Five British men in their twenties were arrested on Sunday near RAF Fairford on suspicion of explosives offences and the preparation of a terrorist act. On Monday they were released on police bail.

That’s not what the terrorism clock looks like when the investigators are still in charge of it.

Under ordinary UK criminal law a suspect can be held for 24 hours, stretched to 36 by a superintendent, and to 96 hours by a magistrate.

But under section 41 of the Terrorism Act the first hold is 48 hours, not 24 hours. A judge can then extend it, in stages, up to 14 days without a charge. If the case merits it, it can even be pushed to 28 days. That 14-day cap exists for exactly this kind of file of vans, an airbase the United States uses, a possible foreign hand, explosives (if there were any) and interviews that are not finished on the first night.

Counter-terrorism police said the inquiry isn’t over. They said conditions apply. They said a state link has not been ruled out. Those sentences he said only make sense if the evidence trail was still live. A live trail is why Parliament built the two-week window.

But watching the guy read out the statement showed me in his body language, tone and eye movements that releasing those five men was NOT his or his department’s decision.

Walking five men after roughly a day is what you do with a pub fight, not with a suspected terrorist attack on a bomber base.

I’ve sat in enough interrogation rooms to know the difference between a custody clock and a political ceiling. Nobody had to shout an order down a phone. Someone in the political building above the investigators decided that charging British nationals on Monday, with Iran already denying it, Washington watching the runway, and a Labour conference where the main topics of discussion were prioritizing Palestinian and other refugees settling in the UK, was uglier than bail and a holding statement.

The law allowed them to keep the door shut. Yet the door opened anyway in half of the most minimum time.

That’s the story. That for me is the only story here. Not “they were innocent.” Not “the case collapsed.” The statute was not exhausted, but the appetite was.

The real question is who, and most importantly, why?

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@Hemiunu2021 Immerhin stellt der deutsche Fußballbund das Afrika-Korps wieder auf. Was man wohl damit vorhat?

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

It's one thing to get taught that everyone is equal and believing it. It may sure be less a matter of skin color or race and more related to upbringing and socialisation. But these days Germans can observe in the streets of their hometowns that they didn't get enriched with quantum physicist from Wakanda, but something else entirely. And they draw conclusions. Can you blame them?🤷

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@MGGA2021h Genau. Wünschen wir dem neuaufgestellten Afrika-Korps doch einfach viel Erfolg und schauen mal, ob es diesmal besser läuft.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@Le_Crapaud47 You can get a monkey out of the bush, but not the bush out of the monkey. And that's perhaps not even a question of skin color, but civilization and upbringing. That dude? Didn't benefit from either.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

😂👍

[Tribute2Hemiunu @Hemiunu2021]

Vielleicht sollte man die „deutsche“ Nationalelf umbenennen?

„Deutsches Afrika-Korps“ wäre vielleicht angemessener?

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@BrianCox_RLTW Indeed. If one could criticize Israel for anything, then perhaps their admirable - if perhaps misplaced - restraint in this matter.

[Le Crapaud @Le_Crapaud47]

La police anglaise :

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

Yay, both of my spirit animals in one picture. 😉👍

[Alaric @0xAlaric]

Nobody seems to be paying attention to what’s going on in SOUTHCOM, even though it’s arguably crazier and more long-run important than Ukraine or Iran.

US SOF is operating in Ecuador. The CIA is doing targeted hits in Mexico. Alleged US mercenary ops in the Pacific. Colombia…

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

The RAF Fairford attack could have been one of the biggest mass terrorist attacks in British history

The fact that it was stopped by a Farmer who saw people looking out of place and not from the community shows that diversity is not our strength

The opposite is in fact true

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

The UK is a failed state. It's only hanging on by a thread and the stubbornness of the few remaining indigenous inhabitants.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

THIS MORNING. RAF FAIRFORD. 00:45.

A pensioner called 999. Not MI5. Not GCHQ. A villager spotted three suspicious vans heading toward a US bomber base and dialled 999.

Five men arrested under the Explosives Act, then upgraded to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act: preparation of a terrorist act. Three vans. 85 homes evacuated at 1.30am. Army bomb disposal robot inside a 400-metre cordon. Counter Terrorism Policing now leading. Major incident declared.

The operation was not intelligence-led. A resident made a phone call. That is what stopped it.

The IRGC already told you this was coming.

In July 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a formal statement naming RAF Fairford specifically as "a legitimate target." They cited the US B-1B bombers striking Iran from British soil, authorised first by Keir Starmer in March 2026 and continued by Prime Minister Andy Burnham. They published the threat. They named the base. Seven months later five men turned up at it after midnight. The intelligence services had no warning. A villager did.

Now the part they really do not want you to know.

Last November the National Crime Agency arrested a man in central London on a German warrant. His name is Mohammed Naim. Son of Basem Naim, Hamas politburo member, former Gaza health minister, US-sanctioned terrorist. Mohammed served as personal bodyguard to Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh from 2006. He was photographed doing it. AFP published the images. In 2010 Egyptian police arrested him for smuggling weapons and gold through tunnels into Gaza. That arrest was documented. On record. Available to any Home Office caseworker.

In 2015 he walked into a British Home Office and claimed asylum. They gave it to him.

Theresa May's Home Office granted him indefinite leave to remain. He later received full British citizenship. Changed his name. More than once. Settled in suburban England as an IT consultant. Raised a family. The state never looked twice.

In summer 2025 he travelled to Berlin. Collected five handguns and ammunition from a Hamas contact. Drove to Vienna. Stored the weapons in a storage unit. Recorded a propaganda video announcing the plot. Target: Jewish community centres, Israeli diplomats, pro-Israel events across Germany and Austria. Timed for the second anniversary of October 7.

Mossad and German intelligence foiled it. British intelligence did not find it.

A court granted him anonymity for 100 years. He sits in a British cell while Germany waits for extradition. The state that gave him the passport is now hiding his identity. Indefinitely.

Now look at what your Prime Minister found time for this morning.

While five men were arrested at gunpoint outside an airbase the IRGC had publicly threatened, while 85 families were evacuated in the middle of the night, while bomb disposal robots crawled through vans a mile from sleeping US bomber crews, Andy Burnham was on the BBC.

He was asked about Daniel Thomas. A father of four. A former soldier. A working man. And Burnham said it is "hard to conclude" he is "anything other than someone who has racist views."

Instant. Confident. No hesitation. No "inappropriate to comment."

Asked about five terrorism arrests at a US bomber base: "It would be inappropriate to comment further whilst investigations are ongoing."

Asked about 85 families evacuated at midnight with zero intelligence warning: he is "being kept updated."

Asked about a Hamas weapons operative handed a British passport who moved guns across Europe: silence.

He found the words to attack a British father in seconds. He cannot find words for the people who were almost blown up this morning.

This is the government that calls you racist for wanting to know who is crossing the border. This is the government that houses asylum seekers in better accommodation than 75% of the working families funding it. This is the government that gave a Hamas weapons operative a British passport and then a century of anonymity when he was caught. This is the government that sat on an IRGC threat against British soil and left a pensioner to do the job of the security services.

They are not failing to protect you. They are choosing not to.

A villager stopped the attack this morning. Not the Prime Minister. Not MI5. Not the Home Office. A resident who looked out of a window at 00:45 and knew something was wrong.

They were right. This government was asleep.

Every fact in this post is verified and sourced. Screenshot it. Share it. They will not tell you. So we have to.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Suicidal Empathy strikes again.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@yourdress1 Ja, schon gesehen. 😉

[Key Pousttchi 🇪🇺 @keypousttchi]

Irrsinn. Und das aktuelle Gesicht dieses Irrsinns.

Deutschland verbrennt seit 28 J sein Volksvermögen und wundert sich jetzt, daß die Einschläge immer näher kommen.

Aber ein Kurswechsel kommt für die Eliten nicht in Frage.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@cottagegirl26 @Ruebenhorst Ist das noch messbar? Eine Gehirnzelle weniger und der ist nicht mehr stubenrein.

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

Sometimes people have too much time and too much money. 😮

Florida Man couldn’t just retire the Kenworth when the miles ran out. He had to redneck-engineer one of the most Florida rigs the Sunshine State has ever seen. Half semi. Half pontoon. All bad idea with a paint job.

From running over protestors in Portland to running over sandbars in the Gulf of America. Same cab. Different fluid. The sleeper still works. The horns still work. The Coast Guard is going to need a minute...

When Florida Man has a dream, there is not a damn thing that will stop him. Not the DMV. Not the marina. Not gravity. He welded a truck to a boat and took it out like that was a normal afternoon.

Optimus Prime after last call at a Keys tiki bar. Big Pine Key said yes. The rest of the country said 'huh?'. 🚛🚤

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

@kroschel Definitiv. Und erst diese Bausünden! Solche Gebäude brauchen stabile Fensterkreuze. Aus ... Gründen.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

Spätrömische Dekadenz trifft auf Bauhaus-Stil und Ikea. Perlen vor die Säue geworfen. 🤷

[Benedikt Brechtken @ben_brechtken]

Preußische Könige waren bescheidener.

[Michael Stauber @MichaelStauber]

😂👍

[Chad Caton🎙🇺🇸 @ImFiredUp2]

I knew I should have gone. 😂😂😂