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Saturday 22 August 2015

Faces of the US military troops that stopped the train massacre in France

Spencer Stone, (pictured above) who is part of the U.S. Air Force, spotted the 26-year-old Moroccan acting suspiciously and heard him trying to load his weapon in the toilet of the high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.

He was travelling with Oregon National Guard member Alek Skarlatos, 22, who was on leave and traveling through Europe at the time after returning from a tour in Afghanistan.

 
Anthony Sadler, from California, Aleck Sharlatos from Oregon, and Chris Norman, a British man living in France
With the help of their friend Anthony Sadler, from Pittsburg, California, and fellow passenger British IT consultant Chris Norman, they managed to wrestle the attacker to the ground, stopping what could have been a deadly terrorist attack.

The terrorist, named in reports as Ayoub el-Qahzzani, had at least nine full magazines of ammunition holding almost 300 rounds. He was arrested by police at a train station in Arras and taken to hospital where he is now in custody.

He came out of the toilet brandishing the gun and opened fire, wounding two people on board. Fortunately, the hero passengers were nearby and overpowered him.

Another photo of Spencer

'As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, 'Spencer, go!' And Spencer runs down the aisle,' Sadler said. 'Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he was unconscious.'
'The gunman never said a word,' he added.
Skarlatos described Stone's heroic actions to ITV News in the aftermath of the attack. 
'Spencer ran a good ten metres to get to the guy and we didn't that his gun not working or anything like that,' he said. 'Spencer just ran anyway and if anybody would have gotten shot it would have been Spencer for sure and we're very lucky that nobody got killed, especially Spencer.'
He added that he was in 'good spirits' in hospital, but was still shocked by what unfolded. 
The suspect

The suspect


39 comments:

Unknown said...

very heroic n brave...God bless ur souls

APPLE said...

Wicked Arabs.

Unknown said...

Brave men. Kisses to dem!

Eze said...

They are already HEROES

Eze said...

They are already HEROES

Anonymous said...

Now Spencer is the true hero and not Caitlyn Jenner. Bless you Spencer!





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Unknown said...

Hmmmmm. Thank God for dis gracious people and I pray all attacks of d enemies in our lives should fail IJN.

Anonymous said...

Thank God for disaster aversion

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Unknown said...

Nice one...thumbup to dem

Unknown said...

Nice one.



















#sad indeed

Unknown said...

Nice one.



















#sad indeed

AC£S said...

Unknown said...

OMG!! Brave men. Kudos

Unknown said...

Nawa ooo

Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

Great men.

no said...

God is just so mysterious in His wonderful ways. There is probably just one person He wanted to save and because of that one person, this filth from the pits of hell did not succeed during the attack. Sick and tired of Islam and all these evil. People

Jasmine Joseph said...

God bless these men

Apple Berry said...

Awww....may God bless them, especially cute Spencer......

Unknown said...

Lol @the beatings#
Kudos to the Heroes especially Spencer.

Unknown said...

Dey r d true hero

Unknown said...

Dey r d true hero

Joy Agubata said...

This is what the Military should be - Giving up your life to save a life!
THese men are really true Heroes and have saved not just another terrible news headline but also countless number of lives from being wasted over nothing.
download the 2mb LIVE VIDEO of the incidence. HERE

I B M bolubantin said...

Faces of bravery!

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Unknown said...

Quite impressive and heroic. Welldone guys.











#TeamBlessed#

Unknown said...

Quite impressive and heroic. Welldone guys.











#TeamBlessed#

Anonymous said...

God is love. Fight hate with love. Water extinguish fire. Love extinguish hate. Stop the killing. Stop the shooting. Add value to humanity . Make the world a better place than how you met it.

Sweet Ama said...

True Heroes..God bless America

yawanow said...

kudos to them.

ary said...

Brave men

Unknown said...

American heroes

Unknown said...

Nice one

Unknown said...

Nice one more kuddoos for them, and #blessed

Unknown said...

God bless him

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