Who or what caused the fire that shut down Heathrow? | LBC
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as posted by the channelChris Phillips used to be the Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office and is a former Detective Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police. Shelagh Fogarty gets his insight and expertise into the fire that closed Heathrow and caused chaos across the world.
Questions are being raised as to whether the fire at an electrical substation near Heathrow Airport was caused by Russian operatives.
Over 1,300 flights have been cancelled today at Europe’s busiest airport, causing misery for tens of thousands of passengers. It is unclear when flights will resume as airport officials seek alternative sources of power.
Investigations into the causes of the fire are underway, including the involvement of counter-terror police.
Security expert Anthony Glees told us that he believes MI5 officers are already “all over” the incident to explore whether the inferno was the result of a Kremlin-sponsored attack.
Professor Glees said: “We are obliged to think about Russian military intelligence being involved in something as serious as this.
“It’s a very serious hit on our critical national infrastructure [and] that we should suspect the Russians and their surrogates being responsible is in itself an indication of the success of Russian subversive activities in the United Kingdom.
“This could be a coincidence, but bearing in mind there are more than 585,000 electrical substations in the UK, why this particular one should explode does seem to me to be more than a coincidence.”
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