thanks marines, prevented terror attack
 

Thank god that two US Marines happened to be in the Thalys (high speed train) from Amsterdam to Paris. They noticed the terrorist loading and locking in the toilet and were able to overpower him when he came out. Unfortunately one Marine seems to be severely injured, but they have prevented hugh loss of live as he had an AK47, 9 magazines and an assortment of knives. With nowhere to go this could have become a huge dissaster.

My thoughts are with the brave Marine who was injured.

3 wounded as off-duty US servicemen subdue gunman on Paris-bound train | Fox News

No points for correctly guessing the origin or religion of the attacker...

Radical Quaker from Mid-Ohio?

The bad guy is from Morocco, a predominantly muslim country. I'm going to guess he is a follower of the religion of peace. Shame the marines didn't eliminate the garbage from the gene pool on the spot.

I love our men / woman in uniform.

Thanks marines. Impressive.

Amen. ^^^
We recently toured West Point and were escorted around by a sophomore cadet, and met several others during our visit. Smart, courteous, humble, fit- just all around an amazing group of young men.
There is hope for this country yet.

God Bless our armed forces!!!

Bloody impressive.

I wonder how many lives those young marines just saved on that train. 50?, 100? More?

A pic of the two Marines from French Twitter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CM-Haw2WcAA1zT5.jpg

Saving the French, even in France!

Viva la marine

It was in Belgium but don't let that stand in the way of your Fox news brainwashing.

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/def...?itok=F9PZ5xqV

Semantics. They did a massive service for the lives of the people on board the train, who gives a **** what country it was in. Hope they got a few good ones in.

I was joking. Lighten up Francis, don't get your surrender monkey panties in a wad.:cool:

There's a pic of the guy floating around...looks like they got more than a few good ones in!

Those two men are real men and make me happy to call them heroes.

Booyah Marines!

I think our boys in the Corps have had their fill after that sneak attack on unarmed USMC recruiters in Tenn. No more make nice.

Can't wait to see that.

Great story and result... We really need to kick some more "goals" like this.

When are we going to stop playing and get serious with these criminals? Enough already!

I don't get what Fox news has to do with anything. The attack happened near the town of Arras in northern France on a train that was bound from Amsterdam to Paris. It did not happen in Belgium.

Arras is only a few miles from the belgian border and with the train going at up to 200mph speeds, it is more likely the attack happened on belgian soil. But that is all inmaterial. The train originating from Amsterdam also made stops in rotterdam, antwerpen and brussels (where the badguy got on). I am only glad it turned out this way and the marine was not mortally wounded.

thanks marines, prevented terror attack
 

His uniform is US Army. Other article from the daily mail in the UK said Skarlatos is a U.S. National Guard member.
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And this ^^^^^ is part of the problem, "these" are NOT "criminals", "these" are RELIGIOUS WARRIORS who want to impose their RELIGION, their CUSTOMS, their WAY OF LIFE UPON YOU and they will stop at nothing in that imposition. If the West does not realize that this is a FOR REAL WAR of NO QUARTER then the West WILL LOSE. And in a few dozen years the West will ALL be singing the praises of Allah.

Ohhh BTW there will be NO MORE LIBERALS nor CIVIL RIGHTS, nor HUMAN RIGHTS just the Laws Of Allah as imposed by the Sharia. The Liberals will either be singing out Allah Akbar when going to the Mosque 3 times a day or they will be DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.

Every person in the West, Liberal or otherwise should read the history about just how peaceful the religion of "peace" really is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

Now tell me it ain't so that Barrack's lineage did not include SLAVE TRADERS.

Don't PARF it up. Go start a thread there.

These guys definitely are my sort of hero.

Great guys but no Marines in that group. One Air Force, one Army NG and one civilian.

Awesome!

Lots of bravery here - I hope the guy that was injured makes a full recovery and they both get commendations!

There are lots of videos now...

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+1 Big time bravery. I'm guessing they were unarmed too.

Though wish they had permanently maimed the scumbag. This way, he'd be suffering while in prison.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. This is literally just the sort of thing that US Marines were created to do. Takes some big brass balls to charge a guy with an AK with your bare hands.

Lighten up Francis, it is a joke son. Ha, I did not even read the one that Matt postedhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/spit.gif

Super balls for sure but there is an old saying, "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option", or something like that. :)

When you are staring death in the face, adrenaline kicks in and someone's going down.

Sure enough, here's one of them saying basically the same thing:

Briton on facing train attacker: &apos;I&apos;m probably going to die anyway, so let&apos;s go&apos; - LA Times

When I was their age and traveling around France, I always stayed in youth hostels to save money. I imagine they might soon find themselves in much nicer lodgings for a lot less money.

Yeah. I don't care if they're Army, Marines, or civilians, I'm just glad some Americans did a good deed over there. Heroes!!

I like how the French train employee was running away from the attacker while the American kids jumped in immediately and kicked the sh it out of the attacker.

I heard one passenger say the conductors all locked themselves in a room and left the passengers to fend for themselves.

Give the old Brit a bit of credit as well.

He may not have been first to the fight but he got their backs.

All three men have ties to Sacramento. Two of the three originally from Carmichael...