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France Announces Train Attack was 'Terrorist'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/8/15 | Ari Yashar

Posted on 08/25/2015 3:56:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Ayoub El Khazzani, the 25-year-old gunman from Morocco who opened fire on a train in France last week, intended to murder everyone on the train as part of a Muslim terrorist attack before being stopped by citizens, revealed French Prosecutor Francois Molins on Tuesday.

El Khazzani, who lived in Spain where he was flagged as a potential jihadist by intelligence services that alerted France about him before the attack, was armed for a massacre, Molins said.

He was toting an AKM assault rifle replete with 270 rounds of ammo, a Luger M80 automatic pistol packed with a full clip, a box-cutter, and a container the size of a standard water bottle full of gasoline, reports CNN.

"According to all of the witness accounts we've gathered...(El Khazzani) wouldn't have hesitated to use all the arms in his possession - assault rifle, pistol and box-cutter - if it wasn't for the remarkable intervention of the passengers," Molins said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alekskarlatos; anthonysadler; france; khazzani; moroccan; spencerstone; train
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To: Eleutheria5

France is starting to get it.


21 posted on 08/25/2015 4:19:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Smokin' Joe

I just finished reading up on it.

Apparently made by FEG in Hungary. That is a very old company who has been turning out handguns since the early 20th century.

I actually once had one. It was pretty well made and finished. Not quite up to the Belgian made ones but not bad either.

I think all the parts are more or less interchangeable with other Brownings.


22 posted on 08/25/2015 4:22:48 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m shocked, I tell you; shocked!


23 posted on 08/25/2015 4:39:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Eleutheria5

Okay, now give Spencer Stone the Purple Heart.


24 posted on 08/25/2015 5:00:08 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Eleutheria5

How did he get all that on the train. Heck I was created by two French Police Babes armed with Uzzis at the Nice Airport.


25 posted on 08/25/2015 5:19:02 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Figures. Did one of them get stuck on a church steeple? That happens a lot in France when Americans save the day.


26 posted on 08/25/2015 5:29:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

a couple of US servicemen on the train

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I think that one is active duty Air Force and the other is a National Guardsman. They were joined by their friend, a college student. From what I have read elsewhere, the trio are childhood friends.

God bless these young men.


27 posted on 08/25/2015 5:36:43 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz CWrontrol with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Hmmm. Never heard of that before but it kinda looks like a “Marinized” BHP. Thanks for the link.


28 posted on 08/25/2015 5:47:41 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: yarddog

German Cherry bomb?


29 posted on 08/25/2015 5:52:39 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: Bikkuri

I don’t think I have seen a real cherry bomb or M-80 since around 1974.

A few years ago, a store in Alabama had what looked like cherry bombs but when I set them off they were about the same power as the lady fingers.

Now Cherry Bombs or M-80s were about the same power and both were frankly powerful enough to be a little dangerous.


30 posted on 08/25/2015 6:55:50 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Well roll me in bread crumbs and call me veal cutlet.....


31 posted on 08/25/2015 7:17:44 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Afterguard

You’re welcome. From what I gathered on a couple of gun blogs, it is very much like a BHP, and parts are interchangeable.


32 posted on 08/25/2015 9:05:05 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Bigg Red
I have heard several versions, the first was three marines, then two and a reporter friend, and as the blanks got filled in the story changed. I'd love to be able to give the proper attribution, but in the end, thank God for 'our guys', whichever branch they serve in.

That day they served Almighty God, their fellow passengers, The USA, France, and the entire human race.

33 posted on 08/25/2015 9:09:37 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Eleutheria5

El Khazzani, who lived in Spain where he was flagged as a potential jihadist by intelligence services that alerted France about him before the attack,

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In Obama’s America that would be a hate crime.


34 posted on 08/25/2015 9:10:59 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: dfwgator

France is starting to get it.

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They were warned but the guy was running loose and arming himself. France still has a ways to go.


35 posted on 08/25/2015 9:13:03 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: yarddog

Cherry bomb was 1/4 stick of TNT. =;-)


36 posted on 08/25/2015 11:05:48 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Yeah, I noticed, too, that the details seemed to change a lot. I suspect that it has to do with reporters who are eager to be the first to break a story. Guess they don’t worry about their impact on their credibility, such as it is.

Heartily concur with your closing statement.


37 posted on 08/26/2015 5:49:30 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Amazing how when facing death one’s focus becomes laser like.


38 posted on 08/26/2015 6:14:00 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Moonman62

Don’t worry. They’ll enact stricter gun laws any day now.


39 posted on 08/28/2015 12:16:57 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Fine work solving the crime Inspector Clouseau.


40 posted on 08/28/2015 12:26:19 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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