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Four Held in Belgium over 2015 Thalys Train Attack
2017-10-31
[AnNahar] Belgian police held four people Monday over the 2015 attack on a high-speed Thalys train to Gay Paree in which an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslem shot and seriously maimed a passenger before being overpowered.
The French interrogators must have gotten useful information from the two miscreants they arrested on October 11th. Well done, O perceptive interrogators!
Police raided six properties around Brussels and "four people were taken in for questioning", Belgian prosecutors said in a statement.

An investigating judge will decide later what further action to take against the detainees.

A bloodbath was only narrowly averted on the train from Amsterdam to Gay Paree when quick-thinking passengers including two off-duty US servicemen subdued gunman Ayoub El Khazzani -- who was armed with a Kalashnikov, a pistol and a box-cutter knife -- as he opened fire.
More specifically, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guard soldier Alek Skarlatos, just back from Afghanistan, and their college friend Anthony Sadler, who with the help of Brit Chris Norman, 62, pounded the miscreant with his own gun until he surrendered because he was unconscious.
Two of Monday's raids were in the gritty Brussels district of Molenbeek, which has gained notoriety as a hotbed of international jihadists after the Brussels bombings in March 2016 and the Gay Paree attacks in November 2015.

"No explosives nor weapons were found" during Monday's raids, prosecutors said.

Khazzani, a Moroccan who fought for IS in Syria, has told Sherlocks he was acting on the orders of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the organisers of the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, whom he met in the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
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