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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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... murderous Moslem shot and seriously maimed a passenger before being overpowered.
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.
"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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