America does good: Amsterdamn to Paris attempted massacre foiled by US Servicemen

[shepardG]

New York times article 1700L Saturday

PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head with his own automatic rifle until he was unconscious, one of them said in television interviews here on Saturday.

The suspect entered the train car carrying an AK-47 and a handgun, according to the Americans. “I looked over at Spencer and said, ‘Let’s go,’” said one of them, Alek Skarlatos, identified as a specialist in the Oregon Army National Guard returning from Afghanistan. With him was his friend, Airman First Class Spencer Stone. “And he jumped, I followed behind him by about three seconds. Spencer got the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck, I grabbed the handgun,” Mr. Skarlatos said.

The Pentagon confirmed the Americans’ identities.

The suspect wounded at least one passenger before the two men subdued him, and their quick action averted what officials said could have been a blood bath. On Saturday morning the French news media, government and social media praised their actions, and President Obama also hailed their bravery.

Probably USA that staged the whole thing right?

Seriously though, Good job boy's, lotta bad people in the world that want to do bad things.
With the ammount of Ammo I saw in some random picture, he would probably have killed 30 people easily.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...pndxso11yi.jpg

[The Stig]

Ahh the BBC guys never mentioned it was 2 servicemen (I presumed it was a civilian) when I was made aware of the news! That's cool.

[tyven]

[AidenCarby]

'MERICA

[tyven]

btw the train ride from amsterdam to Paris is beautiful and you can hop off and do gangster shit in antwerp and belgium along the way!

[Charismatic]

[shepardG]

nobody fucking cares ...
the fucking subway pedophile has 111 comments...

fuck this fucking planet.

[The Stig]

To be fair most of that was talking about sandwiches and along side an immoral event.

This in contrast is something good that happened and was prevented.

[Dimmauk]

Is there no video? Is there no french worldstar?

[Anoat]

There was, but they were le tired.