Overview
- The Justice Department unsealed a superseding eight‑count indictment on Nov. 10 charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani with terrorism‑related offenses.
- Prosecutors say al‑Saadi, who has been in U.S. custody since May, used coded phone calls to relatives to pass instructions to co‑defendants and to finance parts of the operation.
- U.S. filings describe a plan that bought three vans, barrels of fuel, chemical accelerants and metal for shrapnel and say the vehicles were stopped and seized by British police after approaching RAF Fairford on Sept. 26–27.
- The charges include conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, financing terrorism and conspiracy to bomb a place of public use, with some counts carrying possible life sentences.
- The case has produced parallel action: British authorities have charged two men under national‑security laws, U.S. forces repositioned aircraft from RAF Fairford and RAF Mildenhall for protection, and investigations and prosecutions in both countries continue.