Posted on 08/21/2015 4:24:53 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
PARIS — A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding two people before being subdued by two American passengers, officials said.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking in Arras in northern France where the suspected was detained, said one of the Americans was hospitalized with serious wounds. Their names were not immediately released.
Philippe Lorthiois, an official with the Alliance police union, said on i-Tele that the two Americans were soldiers.
In Washington, the Pentagon said it “can only confirm that one U.S. military member was injured in the incident. The injury is not life-threatening.”
Contrary to early reports, Lorthiois said the attacker did not fire his automatic weapon but wounded one man with a handgun and the other with a blade of some kind.
Investigators from France’s special anti-terror police are leading the investigation, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
“As always where an act that could be terrorist in nature is involved, the greatest care and the greatest precision will be used,” Cazeneuve said.
The suspect is a 26-year-old Moroccan, according to Sliman Hamzi, an official with the police union Alliance, who spoke on French television i-Tele.
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Wow. Post of the year.
“Don’t jump a guy just because he “looks like one”. (He’s probably a Sikh and on our side.)”
Roger THAT!
DO NOT mess with a Sikh! They quit “puttin up with” the Islamist cabal a VERY long time ago.
For the same reason that the MSM are rippin their guts out having to report that the perp is a muslim and the heroes are US Marines. They hate America with a passion that burns white hot.
Thanks! TOTAL bravery.
George Orwell
Yep and they’ve been known to “double down stupid” on occasion!!!
Back in 2007, this was satire.
That’s pretty much why I said “yep.”
I heard Jade Helm was five parts psyop
http://www.jpost.com/International/Ties-between-Hezbollah-and-Mexican-drug-cartels-revealed
Prayers up for the Marine who was shot in the neck during the take down. God Bless him and Godspeed!!
3 planes of people did not lack courage. They lacked knowledge. They didn’t know what was happening or what to expect
United 93 heard plenty before they acted, and the plane was far removed from its target as is. They had alot more time, and the other 3 had already crashed. Hindsight.
Isn’t that from Little Debbie? I used to sometimes get them as a child. I’m pretty sure they are still around.
“They ALWAYS say that they don’t know the ‘motive’ for the shooting. Can they be that stupid?”
In a way I can see why that person did not have a motive for the shooting. I ran across this a few years back when a psychopath threatened my life and illegally entered my home several times to prove she could do it. I learned from a shrink psychopaths don’t need a motive, their disorder is simply the reason they do it. Such as Ted Bundy never had a specific motive for killing each girl, he did it because he was not right in the head.
I think the same applies to religious fanatics. The shots were not fired at a specific person for a specific reason. This POS fired the shots because he’s not all there. The “religion of peace” has him so brainwashed in his own mind he honestly thinks what is terribly wrong is terribly right.
As with Ted Bundy, there is no way to correct his behavior other than a quick trial, then a rope, bullet, maybe a needle.
Just my two cents worth.
I think it is Drakes. I remember them too well. You can get them online.
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