# Five suspects arrested on suspicion of terror offences near RAF Fairford

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**Created:** [September 28, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-suspects-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terror-offences-near-raf-fairford/1033447 "2026-09-28T13:22:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-suspects-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terror-offences-near-raf-fairford/1033447/61 "2026-10-06T15:48:23Z")

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There’s a string of recent comments centered around the very elastic nature of the word “terrorism” and what might be good working definitions starting here and interspersed with maybe the next ~15 posts:

> [@Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4796):
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> man_facepalming person_facepalming woman_facepalming Is it possible that he just doesn’t know what the expression “pound for pound” means?

As always, that thread has 3 or 4 strands of commentary running concurrently and can be a bit hard to follow after the fact. But the terrorism part might be relevant here.

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