New indictment claims Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while in US custody
US federal prosecutors have said that an Iranian operative jailed in New York was responsible for the foiled attack on a UK air force base where American B-1 bombers were stationed.
A new indictment alleged that Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while in custody and then transmitted plans to two co-conspirators to buy large quantities of chemicals that could be used as explosives in an attack on the RAF Fairford base in September.
Al-Saadi, who was accused of being associated with Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was said to have planned the attack as retribution for the US war in Iran.
He had already been charged for his alleged links to 18 terrorist attacks in Europe and for allegedly planning to bomb a synagogue in New York as well, according to a statement by the southern district of New York.
He was already imprisoned when he began planning the attack, according to the indictment, which said he then transmitted his plans to Mohsen Mohajeri, an operative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and another Iranian, Mohammad Ali al-Hassani.
Al-Hassani then tasked others with surveilling the Fairfield RAF base and with procuring vans and barrels of…
