What A Lucky Escape.

[Svejk]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/21/amsterdam-paris-train-gunman-france

[Peter Pedant]

// It seems these soldiers tackled him as he left the toilet. Imagine the carnage he could have caused.//

with his weapon out !

they see an armed man and say to themselves - "o he has a rifle and we dont: let's attack him anyway!"

I hope these brave men are justly rewarded

[Peter Pedant]

// It wouldn't surprise me, Svejk, it wouldn't surprise me.//

well it would surprise me to be honest

It is a different thing for 'Control' you know Judy Dench head of MI5 to walk in the office and say " I feel something awful is gonna happen to day - Arabs probably either with guns or bombs - my cleaner told me as i left home"

and to say there will be an attempt on a train from a returning jihadi.....

but I still havent said enough times what brave men were around to prevent it ( kismet as Nelson would say )

[sandyRoe]

The gunman claims, probably with an eye to mitigation when he has his day in court, that he only intended to rob the passengers.

[Svejk]

How extraordinary. Got a link, sandy?

What do you/we think of the train staff locking themselves in a cabin?

[sandyRoe]

It was mentioned on Radio 4 news this morning.

[sandyRoe]

A bit about his claim deep in the text here.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-train-shooting-live-suspected-gunman-had-travelled-to-syria-spanish-authorities-claim-10466967.html

[Svejk]

Perhaps that was just Al Beeb in their 'nothing to do with Islam' mode. More wishful thinking than fact.