Islamic gunman Ayoub el-Khazzani on the radar in 3 countries

Before

Ayoub el-Khazzani may have traveled to Syria where he learned how to kill infidels, but his religious mentors forgot to teach him how to properly clean and clear his Kalishnikov.

The 26-year-old Muslim terrorist was able to board a high-speed Paris-bound train with his Russian made weapon, 9 magazines, a pistol and a box-cutter, in spite of the fact that he was on the radar in France, Belgium and Spain. 

Maybe they forgot to plug in the radar that day.

The scumcrumpet was known to have ties to radical Islam, a term that really means "strict Islam," because there is nothing in the Islamic [so-called] holy book that el-Khazzani wasn't following.

The Associated Press (AP) said that officials did not disclose a possible motive for the attack on Friday, so we have no clue as to why this devout Muslim terrorist would want to kill perfect strangers of the infidel faith, but Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve told the AP that Spanish authorities told French intelligence about el-Khazzani because he belongs to the "radical Islamist movement." 

Again, another name for this radical movement is called "strict Islam," or Islam by the book.

After

Three passengers aboard the train were injured, plus the terrorist who got the crap beaten out of him by 3 brave Americans (another instance where the USA saved France in battle) and luckily, no one was killed. One of the Americans, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, was the first to tackle the jihadist, and suffered cuts that were non life-threatening. A French and British passenger also helped in subduing the jihadist, tying him up after he was beaten unconscious and holding him for the authorities.

El-Khazzani was questioned by the feckless French anti-terrorism police who confirmed through fingerprints that he was the very same practitioner of strict Islam that had been brought to their attention back in February 2014, a French official told the AP. They said that he lived in Algeciras, a southern Spanish city, where he attended a terrorist mosque that was under surveillance.

Surveillance seems a waste of time, doesn't it?

El-Khazzani was transferred to anti-terror police headquarters near Paris where he could be held for up to 96 hours, given a glove-handled Koran and a prayer mat to pass the time.

It also seems that the French and Spanish accounts of the terrorist's travels don't agree, but at least we know the Algeciras mosque (sounds like Al-Jazeera, doesn't it?) is under surveillance. That ought to make us all feel safer.

So the terrorist lived in Spain until 2014, moved to France, traveled to Syria (and it wasn't to pick up a bag of kebabs) and returned to France again.

A French official told the AP the alert went out on May 10 in Berlin, where el-Khazzani was flying to Turkey. The rest of the report is a jumble of accounts. The main thing is, nothing was done to prevent the attempted jihad on the train, perhaps due to political correctness and fear of being called "Islamophobic."

Heaven forfend. 

The scene went down thus:

El-Khazzani had his Kalishnikov strapped across his shoulder. A Frenchman trying to use the toilet encountered him and tried to subdue him. Bullets flew as two US servicemen and their civilian friend, with the help of a British guy, tackled the gunman and disarmed him.

The Americans are: U.S. Airman Spencer Stone of Carmichael, California; National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos from Roseburg, Oregon, and their friend Anthony Sadler, a senior a Sacramento State University in California.

Heroes

"I knew we had to do something or he was just going to kill people," Skarlatos told KEZI, an Oregon TV station. "I mean he wasn't shooting at the time so I figured it was a good time to do it."

Sadler told the AP how he saw a train employee running down the aisle being chased by el-Khazzani holding the automatic rifle. "As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, 'Spencer, go!' And Spencer runs down the aisle. Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the 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."

Chris Norman, a Brit, was the fourth guy to jump into the fight, grabbing the terrorist's arm and tying him up with his necktie. 

Skarlatos, who served in Afghanistan, said that he examined the weapon and found that it failed to fire due to a defective primer in the round.

The train was rerouted to Arras, France where the terrorist was arrested.

Spencer Stone was hospitalized in Lille with a hand injury. An unidentified French-American citizen with a bullet wound was taken to another hospital in the same city.

Stone was released from the hospital later that day.

Our so-called president Obama phoned the three heroes to congratulate them and the trio will be meeting with socialist and French President Francois Hollande on Monday.

Now that "the horse has left the barn," after strict followers of Islam left 20 dead back in January and another man claiming allegiance to Islam beheaded his boss and set off an explosion at an American-owned factory in France, French authorities are on heightened alert and are thinking about closing the barn door.




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