UK charges 2 British men over security incident at US-operated airbase

The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced it has charged two British men in connection to a suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run airbase last month, an incident the country has blamed on Iran.

The British police charged Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, 24, from London, under the National Security Act with conduct to assist a foreign intelligence service, according to a release from the Crown Prosecution Service.

“In this case, we believe that country to be Iran,” Laurence Taylor, the head of British counterterrorism policing, later said in a statement.

Authorities charged a second British man, Nouman Essghir, 24, also under the National Security Act with entering, accessing, inspecting or approaching a “prohibited place” for reasons “prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom,” on Aug. 22.

The two men on Tuesday morning appeared in a London courtroom.

Essghir was one........

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