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Moroccan Terrorist, 26, Was Taken Down By Hero US Airman And His Friends
By Sophie Jane Evans, Aug 23, 2015 Daily Mail
Ayoub El-Khazzani, 26, is being quizzed by French counter-terrorism police after he allegedly opened fire on the high-speed train with a Kalashnikov.
The Morocco-born suspect reportedly wounded one man before he was disarmed and beaten unconscious by two American soldiers and a student.
Alarmingly, he had already been on government officials' radars in four European countries before he carried out Friday evening's terror attack.
He had been deemed a terrorist threat following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris - and had apparently fought with ISIS in Syria earlier this year.
Questions are now being asked as to how El-Khazzani was able to move freely around Europe, despite being widely known as 'potentially dangerous'.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday that Spanish authorities had flagged the jihadi to French officials last February because he belongs to the 'radical Islamist movement' - something El-Khazzani appeared to support on his Facebook page, which has since been deleted.
El-Khazzani, who was reportedly radicalized while living in Spain, was subsequently placed on an intelligence watch list in France.
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