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U.S. Military Deployment in UK

This thread follows the movement and withdrawal of U.S. bombers and aircraft from bases in the United Kingdom.

Oct 4, 6 PM ET to Nov 14, 7 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now

🧵 One thread of The US–Iran war: a turn of it told across days. A local AI model reads every story of the affair once a week and names its threads; new stories join hourly in between. A thread can hold a story that belongs elsewhere, or more than one turn.

5stories so far
57outlets carried one
🫏22 · 11 · 21🐘left · center · right
41.1 daysrunning so far
253 minof TV captions
43radio newscasts
14people retold it online

each story on the front pages, hour by hour

Front pages carrying each story at each hourly run, Oct 4, 6 PM to Nov 14, 7 PM ET (peak 46), stacked by story: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

Its stories in the order of their latest news, each from when we first saw it on a front page to when we last did; beneath, the TV captions, radio newscasts and retellings, each in the color of the story it was about. Hover for details.

in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week

each day’s news in an outlet’s own headline, in the color of its story

2
Oct 3, 11 AM ET
“Dual UK-Iranian National Released on Bail After Alleged Plot on RAF Base”
Breitbart
2
Oct 4, 6 PM ET
“US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base”
BBC
2
Oct 5, 8 AM ET
“US removes bombers from UK base at centre of suspected Iranian plot”
Reuters
2
Oct 6, 4 PM ET
“Drone plot prompted pulling bombers from UK base”
ABC News
3
Nov 10, 5 AM ET
“US reportedly evacuates aircraft from RAF Mildenhall over Iran threat”
The Guardian
4
Nov 11, 6 AM ET
“Iran-backed trio accused of plotting attacks on U.K. base hosting U.S. jets”
NPR
4
Nov 12, 9 AM ET
“Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks Indicted in U.S.”
Breitbart
5
Nov 13, 5 PM ET
“U.S. responds to unauthorized drone activity at UK base”
Axios

the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)

Archetypesa kind of person
Plotswhat happened
Beliefsa premise
Theorieswhat people think is behind it
Argumentsa move in an argument

Wed Nov 11 Retreat 1
Tue Nov 10 Retreat 1
Wed Oct 7 Retreat 2 Security breach 1 Shadow war 1
Mon Oct 5 ✨ Retreat 3 ✨ Security breach 2 ✨ Shadow war 1

what people online made of it, story by story

🧶 told by 14 on “U.S. moves aircraft from second UK base over Iran threat”

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