Plenty of gratitude on display in France for their American saviors (Hey, we haven’t forgotten how you helped us defeat the British in the Revolutionary War). Moroccan born MUSLIM attacker armed with Kalashnikov shouted “give me back my gun” as he was foiled by three Americans, including two off-duty U.S. Military servicemen.
CNN The struggle was brief, bloody and chaotic. The high-speed train was zipping from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday when a shirtless man emerged from the bathroom — a rifle slung over his shoulder, witnesses said. Three Americans — a civilian, an Air Force member and a National Guard member, with help from a British man — jumped into action. They quickly tackled him, possibly averting a massacre aboard the train.
Alek Skarlatos yells, ‘Get him!,’ so my friend Spencer Stone immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself,” said Anthony Sadler, the civilian among the three. Stone is an Air Force member while Skarlatos is in the National Guard. “The three of us beat up the guy,” Sadler said. “In the process, Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away.”
@BFriedmanDC Well thanks America for saving our asses..again =) #Thalys#ThalysAttentat#AlexSkarlatos#AnthonySadlerpic.twitter.com/zHPiVssRAK
— Chloé Davidovitch (@CloDavidovitch) August 22, 2015
U.S. Air Force off-duty serviceman Spencer Stone departs the Clinique Lille Sud, which specializes in hand injuries, in Lesquin, France.
UK Telegraph Pictures just in show Spencer Stone, one of the American heroes, leaving hospital in Lille. He looks a bit battered and bruised but otherwise in reasonable shape. Earlier, his mother said he had surgery on Saturday morning to repair some of the damage to his fingers and would need physiotherapy to get full movement back. Witnesses said that Stone provided first aid to others before worrying about his own injuries
Francois Hollande, the French president, has also now offered his “heartfelt thanks” to Barack Obama for the “exemplary conduct” shown by three American citizens who overpowered a gunman on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train.
UK Express A Spanish anti-terrorist official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed the 26-year-old Moroccan suspect had lived in Spain until last year, moved to France then travelled to Syria where he is believed to have trained with ISIS before returning to France. French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the suspect had been flagged by Spanish authorities last year for links to ISIS.
French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was on board with his girlfriend and two children, has criticised the train staff for locking themselves in a special carriage and leaving passengers to fend for themselves. It was no thanks to the train staff that the three Americans and one British man risked their lives to save the other passengers.
He said: “We heard screaming passengers in English, ‘He shoots! He shoots! He has a Kalashnikov!” “Suddenly, members of the crew ran into the hallway and their faces were pale.” He said the staff rushed towards a locked car and opened it “with a special key” before locking themselves inside.
Mr Anglade claims he and other passengers banged on the door and shouted at staff to open up, but their cries for help were ignored. He said: “Nobody replied, there was radio silence. It was terrible and unbearable, it was inhumane.
UK Telegraph The thwarted attack shows once again just how difficult it is for intelligence services trying to track potential jihadists. In a timely interview with CTC Sentinel, the in-house journal of the US military academy at West Point.published on the same day as the attack, Alain Grignard, a senior member of Belgium’s counter-terrorism police unit, said the terrorist threat had “never been higher in all the years I’ve been working”.
It boils down to mathematics and it’s all linked to the Syria dynamic. There’s no way of knowing the exact numbers but I can tell you with certainty that at least 300 have travelled – that’s the number we have sufficient evidence to bring charges against. At least 100 have returned to Belgium, but we are under no illusions that there aren’t more we don’t know about. It’s impossible to do surveillance on everybody.
Col Tim Collins argues that it needed the American can-do attitude to overpower a gunman aboard the train to Paris. What would have happened if they had not been there?
In my experience, the US serviceman does not experience the excruciating levels of self-consciousness that dogs the European armies. Despite a low during the Vietnam era, US service personnel are proud of their country’s uniform and service and the nation is proud right back.
Alek Skarlatos was on holiday in Europe after just completing a tour of duty in Afghanistan with the Oregon National Guard.
US National Guard soldier Alek Skarlatos, 22, said he helped tackle the attacker with his friend Spencer Stone, who is in the US Air Force, who was stabbed in the neck. He said: “I just got back from Afghanistan last month, and this was my vacation from Afghanistan.”
Their friend, Anthony Sadler, was travelling with them and described the moment the pair jumped into action. He said: “As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, `Spencer, go!’ And Spencer runs down the aisle.
Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he was unconscious.
“He was just telling us to give back his gun. ‘Give me back my gun! Give me back my gun!’ But we just carried on beating him up and immobilized him and that was it.”
Reuters reports that Belgium’s prime minister called on Saturday for urgent talks with France, Germany and the Netherlands to seek more security measures on cross-border trains, after a gunman was wrestled to the ground by passengers. The prime minister’s office said the train gunman, whis is being held in France where he was arrested, was known to Belgian authorities, which had been informed by Spain that he was a security risk.
Gen Philip Breedlove, Nato’s Supreme Commander in Europe and head of US European Command, has also paid tribute to the actions of off-duty American personnel:
Chris Norman, British businessman who helped overcome the attacker on the train: “I realized the only way to survive was to go for him.”
This was another demonstration of American superiority with one flaw. In the early sixties, U.S. military training for various unarmed combat situations always included as the final step a heel stomp to the temple. Either this is no longer standard training or the servicemen failed to follow their training. The only time an enemy combatant should survive is on an intel gathering mission.
GREAT JOB GUYS. SALUTE!
How interesting some of your comments are.I never in a million years would think France would have another system put in place for complete takeover of their sovereignty. I simply ask a question to all of you. How long must we endure an inept standard of protection for EVERYONE worldwide? I am only 33 yrs. old and it seems to me the solution is right before our very eyes. People of clarity worked together to save their life and the lives of passengers. These heroes were UNARMED. Now let us all arm yourself, band together in a TRUE brotherhood and demand policy change from the oppression of a tyrranical law against self preservation. In my 33 years on this planet the perversion and flip flop of our standards for engagement have been not just politically incorrect but psychologically inferior.Why? We are largely a DO WHAT WERE TOLD group mindset. You can’t just let a bully take your lunch money everyday while the teachers say no fighting the crime will keep occurring. You take the legs or wind out of the bully and you beat that MF until he sees stars then you beat em some more and then you give him a warning when you know he can hear you telling him that there’s more where this came from and it will only get worse. You hold your head high for standing up for yourself because its right and other people are better for having witnessed how to stand up to bully. We are talking about REAL SHIT. Not playground. Real bullets, real guns,real razor blade and real life or death situation. Americans who aren’t programmed to lay down and die will not take this shit but stand up to it. Who’s next?
it shows the false, whimpy attitude of the French PM that he would thank his fellow Socialist, US Prez Obama who like him has encouraged attacks by Muslims throughout the world and now nuclear proliferation by Iran instead of awarding the Americans and Britisher personally! Then again, Socialists the world over tend to not believe in individual achievement much any way until they themselves need it from someone who isn’t a Socialist and believes in it as part of their code of ethics! Not a word from Obama will be heard honoring these men while he would love to denounce those who preach the reality of what the traditional Sharia teaches Islamics to believe in and how they should act which they do but again for some reason, the Left refuses to hold them accountable for their behavior nor see the connection to what they believe manifesting in their actions!
BNI is right to mention the now little acknowledged today but critical help the Bourbon royal family of France government gave to the American cause when it bordered on hopeless. The Bourbon helped the Americans at a point when they were not financially well off but Pres Washington paid them back in full to their surprise and refused to recognize those blood thirsty savages who overthrew them at the direction of the Prussian agent of chaos and Masonic leader, Weissenhopt. Obama’s supporters now want to remove all references honoring the Father of the USA, George Washington in the spirit of the French Revolution whose leftist supporters have a weakness for all anti-western cultural groups supporting chaos including the Muslims!
The French and we Americans now have one major thing in common. We have both destroyed our national greatness with very bad, short-term political decisions in who we have entrusted our national governments to! The French though can honestly say that their culture has had enough stamina to try to correct the problem but that outside forces intervened to overthrow their cultural institution of monarchy that is part of their heritage from the time of the Druids who took on the mighty Roman Empire and could have won had it not been for Germanic mercenaries! Fast forward to the 1950’s when the USA forced the French against their national will to abandon their indigenous settlements along the Algerian coast giving the Muslim savages the idea they could take on the West and actually win!
Most of the problems today with the Muslims stem from the abandonment of US WWII European allies who represented the cage keeping the Islamic tiger under control in favor of short-term commercial convenience for American oil companies that refused to think long-term about the good of their home country! They worked hand and glove with anti-European biased leftist academics in the US State Department whose views about promoting “Third Way” paths to democracy for Third World states that had no basis in the organic experience of these places opened Pandora’s Box!
I am glad to see the French authorities recognized the ENGLISH
fellow who also helped. The American news sources have not really mentioned
him.
Kill him, that mad muslim does not deserve another second of life. We salute the three gents on the train.
Great to hear that all will recover. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea for our military to be out of uniform. Keep them guessing. So proud of our men who reacted so quickly without thinking of themselves. West Coasters even!!!
Sobering that Intel dropped the ball on this one, but I’m also reminded that US had warning from the Russians about Boston Marathon Bombers and did not stop them so I hesitate to call this a problem endemic only to Europe.
Made me laugh to hear moslem ordering “Give me back my gun! ” Shows how mentally challenged they are! As if that was going to happen! God Bless Our Brave Warriors!!!
I’m surprised that he didn’t accuse them of islamophobia for trying to take his gun away. Then again, maybe he did and we just haven’t heard about it.
Dude, he did actually. He is apparently ‘dumbfounded’ that he is being accused of being a terrorist. He has claimed that he came across the weapon stash accidentally.
I cannot for the life of me comprehend why Europe would want more of these people. It is like a healthy man wishing earnestly for an infected scr*tum.
Even the most peaceful Muslim is like an AIDS patient with a nondetectable virus load. Just because it is not showing up now, does not mean it cannot spike up at any time.
Moreover there is a constant back and forth between the radical segment and non radical segment. The result being walking time bombs that can kaboom any minute.
There is nothing called a peaceful Muslim. That is the blunt truth. They are and have been incubators for jihadis since 632 AD. But a few billion fellow human beings of ours are oblivious to that and the dangerous environment they are living in.
If the gang rapes by Somali Muslims in Stockholm, by Turkish Muslims in Copenhagen etc have not convinced Europe then nothing will. Eurabia will inexorably become true.
It may be brief but this story makes me proud to be an American. My congratulations to these brave man. One question. How did this terrorist board the train carrying a long gun? You can’t hide an AK-47 in your jeans. Did the cowardly train crew just ignore the lumps in his pants?
Tom
We don’t know how long exactly the long gun was. It at least had a folding stock or the stock was removed/cut and the barrel could have been shortened too for all we know. If the barrel were shortened then it would have been more like a SMG, but even with just no stock or a collapsed stock it would have been closer to a SMG than what you’d be imagining.
Sounds like people do not have to go through luggage X-rays or metal detectors to get on these trains. I think the security is based on the usual assumption that since guns are illegal nobody can possibly have an automatic weapon with 9 magazines of ammo.
this muzzorist was known to 3 EU intelligence services and lived in Spain and France and is believed to have trained with ISIS …
and what were the intelligence services doing throughout – WATCHING him. My little dog could have done a better job.
Hollande thanks Obama? Typical liberal idiot behavior. Why doesn’t the panty-waist MF thank the men himself? Liberals are such a bunch of self-congratulators and circle-jerkers.
Note to all freedom lovers … If you ever get a chance to stop beating a Muslim terrorist in the head with the butt of a gun … don’t.
He used the muzzle!
Europeans in general, not only the French, but the Dutch, the Italians, Swiss and Germans, are very impressed by what these American service men did. The European internet pages are full of admiring comments. Not everybody here in Europe criticizes the American people. Some of us truely love you guys – even when you do not save our lives.
Thanks Munich, we are very surprised at all the support they are getting, but happily so.
Among comments I was reading in French MSM, this one comes up once in a while to the effect ‘What will we do next time? They might not be there to save us’.
Another one: French passengers were powerless. Had they hurt the terrorist, they would have been arrested’…
Spencer Stone is being hailed as the main hero in this story. He ran about 35 feet towards the shooter. Some politicos are saying they should be awarded the Legion of Honor Medal.
This one was a close call. Another couple of seconds…and those passengers–trapped in the cars–are doomed, it’s a shooting gallery. Thanks to courage and quick action from our good-guys, another muslim mass-murder was averted. And, when you have an erstwhile murdering muslim taken down, beaten senseless and hog-tied–THAT’S a happy ending!
But…the trains are still running, yes? And, how many millions of muslims are in Europe? How many muslms returned from the barbaric “Islamic State?” Who’ll be on the next train, the one after that?
This is an inspiring victory over the forces of islamic evil. It’s a tactical victory, owing to the heroes’ courage and valor. But, it only begs the larger question: Muslims are in our countries. They’re attacking us.. When have we had enough of this? What are we ready to do about it?
Unfortunately, I’m betting that this will pass from the news-cycle– and just fade away–with no changes in the big picture–the strategic picture. And, our officials will continue to try (at our cost) to treat the symptoms rather than identify and cure the disease. Unless that changes, the prognosis is not looking good…
It is amazing how many Islamic time bombs are walking amongst us and the government do nothing, Thank god for the US marines, well done, they most certainly stopped a massacre.
CA, they were Air Force and National Guard, not Marines, as first reported.
The French knew this man, yet he was able to obtain weapons AND bring them aboard a ‘flagship’ transport. Embarrassing to say the least. ‘Heads should roll’, as Muslims are so fond of supplying.
If this is the state of ‘French Intelligence’, these people are fucking stupid.
To give you an idea about the incredible judicial REPRESSION in FRANCE against anything even remotely anti-islamic: Just after this attack, I posted on YAHOO-France quite a few vigorous comments against ISLAM, about this heinous moslem terrorist attack!… Just A FEW MINUTES afterwards, YAHOO-France sent to me a message, THREATENING ME with LEGAL PROSECUTION in court!!!! That’s French “Freedom of expression” for you… ALL our French medias and political/legal institutions are CRAMMED to the brim with MUZZRAT SYMPATHIZERS!! I am now quite seriously considering leaving my Country, the political repression there becoming smply INSUFFERABLE!!! Sad, but true!!…
Come to America, Marc, we still have free speech, despite Obama and the left doing everything he can to get rid of it. Post your anger here, no one will threaten you.
Yes, I am thinking about coming to America! Or perhaps Scandinavia(except Sweden of course!!) or the Netherlands. I also heard that Finland has very good free speech policies. I guess South America is also quite free, and I love the Climate and Nature over there!… Many thanks for the advice!
Marc, The Netherlands has a huge Muslim problem, too, as does Denmark. Finland seems to be the least infested of the Scandiavian nations.
Just goes to show how dumb and inbred this jihadi was that he thought that anyone would give him his gun back in this situation. Does this guy even have two brain cells or is he operating entirely on just one?
The French interrogators ought to tell him he better produce some useful verifiable intel really soon or he will be handed off to Jordanian interrogators who will be really sure to respect the Muslim standard of human rights (better known as no human rights).
It’s the most beautiful story I’ve heard in years.
I tweeted in French to a tweeter that in U.S., American citizens tackle terrorists about to go into action. Imagine the military civilians.
I called them ‘cowards’ for submitting to P.C.
They are all cowards, even their military.
This is a precious lesson and I think this is the wake-up moment they needed.
GOD works in strange ways. My most profound admiration for U.S. service people. May all others learn from this.
This is the problem with socialism. It promises to absolve people of responsibility for things, leading to a “not my job” attitude for everything outside of one’s actual job. So when the train staff run and hide its because of “not my job!” If off duty police or soldiers don’t do anything it’s because of “not my job!” If random civilians don’t do anything then it’s because of “not my job!” Socialism promises to assign someone to all jobs that need doing so if “stop terrorist” isn’t assigned then it’s “not my job!” And this attitude gets conditioned because if someone does do something that “isn’t their job” then they get punished for it half the time. After all, you might be interfering with someone’s bonified union labor and trying to take away their job or something.
If everyone around at that time had that attitude then nobody would have done anything, at least 100 people would be dead, and some idiots would be standing around going “but it was the job of the police so we didn’t do anything because we aren’t police.”
Not everyone in Europe has been conditioned this way but it seems like way too many have.
As a Frenchman, I wish to express my deepest appreciation of the bravery displayed by these American servicemen!! They litterally SAVED the lives of DOZENS of innocent people!! They deserve at least a Purple Heart, for sure!
Marc, we appreciate all the support from the French people.
It would have been so un-PC for the authorities to have actually apprehended the terrorist before he acted. Sure he could have killed dozens of people but at least no Muslims got their feelings hurt. That’s all that matters to our idiot governments.
The “Black Lives Matters” crowd won’t know what to do with these 3 American heros. Two white guys and one black guy, FRIENDS, save everyone’s life. Because as we all know all NONE terrorists lives matter! Just say’in!
The repudiation expressed by a race traitor, like yourself, of the anti-White racists of the “bwack lives matter” crowd is paradoxical to say the least! You should NOT have married a partly White “olive-skinned green-eyed Spanish-or Italian-looking Copt.”
I vow to do everything within my power to correct the genetic damage that has been mercilessly inflicted upon the Europeans who had been conquered by the swarthy Arab and Turkish KORANIMALS, thereby spawning brown-eyed, brown-haired ‘Europeans’ — namely through indefatigably pushing for legislation obligating White reproduction through the use of IVF (in-vitro fertilization) with gene selection for Nordic features all across the White Infidel world.
Carol, this is not the first time you have insulted one of my readers. So now you are banned.
I’m mightily sorry, Bonni! I don’t recall whatsoever ‘offending’ any BNIer before.
Moreover, I’m taken aback by your thin-skinned attitude towards what you consider amounts to an insult. But, by all means, if you deem such dissent insulting, then I’m more than willing to avoid engaging in it from now on and, as such, request you forgive me. <3 <3
Your apology should be directed to Mrs Pharaoh.
Mrs. Pharaoh, I’m sincerely sorry that I’ve crossed the line with you; my transgression was in large part due to the fact that I was drunk and high as f*ck at the time I posted my initial comment on this thread. Once again, my deepest apologies! :* :*
Meant to add the Israeli secret service had also flagged this tool up as a radical, although you will be hard pressed to find this on the mainstream net, common knowledge here in France.
AG, if you have a link to that info, I will post it.
This is even more frightening, now the authorites here have admitted there are at least 5000, yes FIVE THOUSAND known terroists within France !
Heres hoping this ‘close shave’ is the last, we have avoided a bloody MASSACRE thanks to the quick thinking and training of Alex Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone and Brit Chris Norman, it does not take a rocket scientist to work out the carnage had they not risked their lives to take this POS down.
Below the link to the editorial where the police admit there are 5000 targets living among us, sorry its in French, but you get the idea.
http://www.sudouest.fr/2015/08/22/fusillade-dans-le-thalys-le-suspect-etait-fiche-comme-5000-autres-en-france-2103675-6093.php
http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/fusillade-dans-le-thalys-l-auteur-de-l-attaque-qui-a-reside-en-belgique-nie-etre-un-terroriste-55d83dea3570b5465368eef1
Link above to a Belgian newspaper where our dear friend and follower of the religion of peace, explained to the police that he found the bag, AK47, handgun and 9 full clips in a park and was in the process of the taking the passangers hostage for a ransom ! EH ? Who thinks this shit up, guys i have heard better excuses from a five year old, my dog eat my homework. Proof once again we are dealing with IDIOTS, dangerous motivated, retarted, inbred, amaterish, determined and dangerous IDIOTS.
This maybe explains plenty of things, interesting reading if you have not seen it before.
http://10news.dk/?p=526
I mentioned in an earlier post as it was stated on the Belgian site the Israelis had flagged this POS up to the Spanish, Belgians and French (the mentioned Israeli intelligence has disappeared read what you want into that) they have since updated the page and thankfully the French passenger who initially tackled this loser when he sorted the toilet with the automatic weapon was shot three times and he was in critical condition having taking a round to the neck, thankfully he is no longer on the danger list, thank God he is stable, not out of danger but alive, another HERO !!
Things must change soon within European politics soon or i fear the populus will take things into their own hands !
I used the word fear, inretrospect i welcome the impending cleansing process !
AG, so you’re telling me they know there are 5,000 terrorists there, yet they aren’t rounding them up? We are going to keep seeing these so-called “lone wolf” attacks in the West as that is the MO of ISIS now. I expect there to be at least one or two a month from now on.
Europe can expect some major attacks on key cities sooner or later. Rome is a main target for ISIS as is London.
Every time there is an attack, people say it’s a wake-up call, yet a few weeks later, they seem to have gone back to sleep again.
Look, I can’t criticize Europe because the US is only marginally behind, now that Obama has virtually ended surveillance of Muslims and mosques. What’s different is that we have an armed populace.
The French media are in a frenzy over here, these brave guys have been elevated to ‘God’ like status, that they deserve. I am proud to have served in the British military along side the Americans who are prepared to ‘put themselves in harms-way’ even when there not on duty, although once you have been in the military you are always alert even when on holiday.
They merit the applause the population of France, the false words of our socialist president mean nothing though ! The politicians are complicite in this deceipt, large scale immigration is engineered and is designed to end in tears.
Although their plan of watering-down us all down may be well thought out, nothing is caste in stone, as shown by these brave guys sometimes ‘the plan…does not go as planned’ eh MoMo !!!
Qudos guys, i salute and everyone of you for being there……Fuck knows the French police have dropped the ball again !!
Time to bring back border controls in Europe something the Belgian Foreign Minister is calling for this afternoon, you do not have to stop everyone, just the Muslimes, how hard can it be !
AG, you will be called a “racist” for saying that, even though muslims are not a race.
Hollande thanked Barack Obama.?? He has got to be kidding, What the Hell! Obama would be rejoicing in the deaths of Westerners at the hand of one of his muslim brothers!
Yeah that made me sick too! Hussein hates our soldiers and i sincerely believe were it not for the media adoration these guys are getting he would try to find a way to court martial them.
First question for the “authorities” should be WHY this guy was walking around free??? Second question should be for the French population as a whole………………. do they think there are going to be heroes like these four just conveniently at their disposal every time some muslim terrorist tries to kill innocent civilians??? How many FRENCH citizens did ANYTHING in this incident………………. ???
Lee,
with respect an French guy tackled him as he came out of the restroom/toilet and took three rounds for his trouble, thankfully his life is out of danger according to the latest here on French TV, seconds later MoMo got the shite knocked out of him by an number of guys who merit our admiration for the rest of their lives.
Not all the French are cowards, its just our politicians tell us we must be nice to all the misguided camel-jockeys !
Unfortutatly our politicians are walking on rose clouds in Europe and when they wake up, it will be to late ?
What the f–k did Obama have to do with one iota of these guys heroism. He get’s credit for NOTHING!
I agree. The most profound insult to the military service people.
Credit for nothing: Well, lets see. I guess the precedent was set when those mentally defective morons on the Nobel prize committee awarded the peace prize to Obama. Talk about a prize for nothing ! FOOGIE ! !
Our great American heroes saved the day without using any weapons. Imagine what they can do if bama didnt interfere with the war efforts.
Hell, don’t thank obama, he cheers for the muslim terrorists, NOT our soldiers, unless they’re traitors!!!
If getting stabbed in the neck is “vacation,” what’s work like?
The Americans stole this man’s gun!! That’s illegal!!!! Obama, do something!!
LOL. And I think it is funny too that he asked for his gun back. Of course the French train employees ran and hid. The French are such wimps. We came to their aid again. I wonder how they will feel when muslims start bombing Note Dame Cathedral and the Louvre. Will they ask for our help again then?
Don’t joke, He probably will. His dead silence on this story doesn’t smell good. I’ve joked elsewhere that he’s too busy with meetings on how to punish them to comment but that’s what will probably happen.