The U.K. government is refusing to give details about U.S. military personnel stationed at air bases in Britain, amid fears that President Donald Trump is preparing to bomb Iran or Greenland, reported media organization Declassified UK on Jan. 20. Asked how many Americans were stationed at 13 bases in Britain that host the U.S. military, Armed Forces Minister Al Carns would only say there were “approximately 11,000” in total.
“In the interests of personnel security, I will not currently share specific numbers of U.S. [visiting forces] personnel at each individual site,” Carns has said in response to a Parliamentary question.
The debate over U.S. military sites in Britain is taking place amid evidence of those bases being used for an American military buildup in the Middle East, possibly for a strike on Iran. On Jan.. 18-19, four U.S. military transport aircraft departed from the U.S. air base at Lakenheath in Suffolk with their destination believed to be the Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan.