How did the RAF Fairford incident go from 'suspected bomb plot' to police bail?
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Watch: What's next for the RAF Fairford counter-terror investigation?
观看：英国皇家空军费尔福德反恐调查的下一步是什么？
On Sunday morning, the world was watching as drama unfolded in the village of Whelford.
星期天早上，世界正在观看whelford村的戏剧表演。
Before sunrise, residents were called from their beds and told to evacuate as a huge police operation unfolded in the village, which is next door to RAF Fairford, a base used by the US Air Force.
在日出之前，居民被从他们的床上叫来，并被告知撤离，因为一个巨大的警察行动在村里展开，这是美国空军使用的基地RAF Fairford的隔壁。
One villager managed to take a picture of five men sitting on the ground, stripped to the waist, handcuffed and under armed guard.
一名村民设法拍摄了五名男子坐在地上的照片，剥离到腰部，戴上手铐并在武装警卫下。
They were arrested for offences under the Explosives Act. But now counter-terrorism detectives say no explosives were found in their three vans, only an "accelerant" - petrol.
他们因《爆炸物法》规定的罪行而被捕。 但现在反恐侦探说，他们的三辆面包车里没有发现爆炸物，只有一种"助燃剂"-汽油。
What some newspapers called a "suspected bomb plot" ended in the suspects being bailed. So what was going on?
一些报纸所谓的"疑似炸弹阴谋"以嫌疑人被保释而告终。 那到底是怎么回事？
The US President Donald Trump asserted that the men had been trying to do "big damage" to the base. "We had them under view for a long time, and we got them," he declared.
美国总统唐纳德特朗普断言，这些人一直试图对基地造成"巨大损害"。 "我们看了很长一段时间，我们得到了他们，"他宣称。
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: "What could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a very serious situation. It's one that clearly involved the hands of a foreign actor."
美国国务卿卢比奥说："周末在英国可能发生的事情是一个非常严重的情况。 这显然涉及到一个外国演员的手。"
But in a veiled criticism of that, the head Counter Terrorism Policing in the UK Laurence Taylor said that the worry that a lot of people had been experiencing had been "heightened by the international commentary".
但在对此的隐晦批评中，英国反恐主管劳伦斯泰勒说，很多人一直在经历的担忧"被国际评论加剧了"。
He also defended his detectives' decision to give the suspects police bail with "very strict conditions". This had been criticised by President Trump.
他还为他的侦探决定以"非常严格的条件"给予嫌疑人警察保释辩护。 这受到了特朗普总统的批评。
Taylor said it was an "investigative decision and one which is grounded in experience and strategy".
泰勒说，这是一个"调查决定，一个基于经验和策略的决定"。
This suggests there were good tactical reasons for releasing the men on bail, perhaps to encourage their cooperation.
这表明释放保释人员有很好的战术理由，也许是为了鼓励他们的合作。
A resident of Whelford took this photo of five men sitting on the ground, handcuffed In truth, once it became clear that the military remote-controlled robots that were used found no explosives in the vans, only petrol, the investigation inevitably changed.
Whelford的一名居民拍下了这张照片，照片上有五名男子坐在地上，戴着手铐 事实上，一旦人们清楚地发现使用的军用遥控机器人在货车中没有发现爆炸物，只有汽油，调查不可避免地发生了变化。
It left detectives with five men from London in their 20s in police custody who had simply been found parked up near the air base in the middle of the night in suspicious circumstances and with some petrol - but little other usable concrete evidence.
这让侦探们和五名20多岁的伦敦男子被警方拘留，他们只是被发现在半夜停在空军基地附近，情况可疑，还有一些汽油--但几乎没有其他可用的具体证据。
It might have been hard to persuade a senior officer or a magistrate to extend the suspects' detention without something more definite.
如果没有更明确的事情，可能很难说服高级官员或地方法官延长对嫌疑人的拘留。
The men were being held under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), not the Terrorism Act (TACT).
这些人是根据《警察和刑事证据法》而不是《恐怖主义法》被拘留的。
This meant detectives had the option to use police bail with strict conditions, but could not hold the men for 14 days, which they could have done if TACT had been used. What we know about RAF Fairford counter-terror probe More questions than answers after major incident near RAF Fairford For a while it was unclear whether the men were already being watched by undercover surveillance teams when they were spotted by villagers in the dead of night, or whether the villagers really were the first people to alert the police.
这意味着侦探可以选择在严格的条件下使用警察保释，但不能将这些人关押14天，如果使用机智，他们可以这样做。 我们对英国皇家空军费尔福德反恐怖调查的了解 在皇家空军费尔福德附近发生重大事件后，问题多于答案 有一段时间还不清楚，当这些人在夜深人静时被村民发现时，他们是否已经被卧底监视队监视，或者村民是否真的是第一个报警的人。
Taylor has now given some assistance on this, saying the response on Sunday morning was "due to a range of information that we received", suggesting the police had some other intelligence Certainly security had been visibly stepped up at the base in the preceding days, so certainly there had been some intelligence about a possible attack.
泰勒现在对此给予了一些帮助，称周日早上的回应是"由于我们收到的一系列信息"，这表明警方有一些其他情报 当然，在前几天，基地的安全明显加强了，所以肯定有一些关于可能发生攻击的情报。
Elite firearms officers were very quick to respond to the villagers' 999 calls.
精英火器官员对村民的999电话反应非常快。
Both counter-terrorism and military sources have told me that this story is still quite near the beginning, raising the possibility that detectives are trying to identify some kind of "controlling hand" behind the presence of the suspects in Whelford with their petrol.
反恐怖主义和军事消息来源都告诉我，这个故事还很接近开始，这增加了侦探试图用他们的汽油来识别嫌疑人在Whelford存在背后的某种"控制手"的可能性。
The men could be entirely innocent and able to give a good explanation for being in Whelford on Sunday They could have been paid or tricked into moving the vehicles and the petrol, but unaware of who they were working for Or they could have been part of a plot which was interrupted before it reached a more dangerous phase That is why the next bit of the counter-terrorism investigation is so vital.
这些人可能是完全无辜的，并且能够为周日在Whelford提供一个很好的解释 他们可能已经支付或欺骗移动车辆和汽油，但不知道他们为谁工作 或者他们可能是一个阴谋的一部分，在它达到一个更危险的阶段之前就被中断了 这就是为什么反恐怖主义调查的下一阶段如此重要的原因。
By examining mobile phones and computers, tracking vehicles, searching addresses, and using the covert techniques of MI5, GCHQ and US intelligence, detectives are trying to build a clearer picture. On that critical investigation rests the decision over whether to arrest anyone else, whether to charge the five men, and whether we ever find out the true story of the mysterious RAF Fairford plot.
通过检查手机和电脑，跟踪车辆，搜索地址，并使用MI5，GCHQ和美国情报的隐蔽技术，侦探们正在努力建立一个更清晰的画面。 在这一关键调查中，决定是否逮捕其他人，是否起诉这五个人，以及我们是否发现了神秘的英国皇家空军费尔福德阴谋的真实故事。
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