It should be noted that others were involved in taking this wanna-be jihadi down. Spencer, the Airman, would have received a lot more of that Moroccan's knife if it hadn't been for a Brit jumping in to help (and who was also wounded). He said he saw Spencer get it in the neck, and that the Moroccan was about to cut his thumb off as well. Sounds like Spencer was really in war mode - he was the main assault/restrainer for the nut, got cut up, then rushed to tend another responder who got it in the neck worse than he did and was bleeding out. Hats off to you Airman! When you find yourself in the middle of a vicious cock fight, it is good to keep your head on a swivel, no?
I was getting a little irked by all the surrender crap regarding the French. I've always felt the stereotype was unfair, and have French friends who were really into judo, boxing, and starting shit with Russians and gypsies. I had many terms for them, but "pussies" and "cowards" weren't on the list.
But then in that BBC article about Hollande's praise I saw:
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..."I'm really proud of my friend that he just reacted so quickly and so bravely," Anthony Sadler said.
"He was really the first one over there. Even after being injured himself, he went to go help the other man who was bleeding also. Without his help, he would have died.
"That man was bleeding from his neck profusely."
The 554 passengers included French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, the star of Betty Blue and Nikita, who was lightly wounded breaking glass to sound the alarm.
In an interview with Paris Match magazine, Mr Anglade said train staff entered a private cabin and locked it when they heard gunshots, leaving the passengers alone.
"I thought it was the end, that we were going to die, that he was going to kill us all," he said.
"I really could see us all dying because we were all prisoners in that train, it would have been impossible to escape from that nightmare."
The American men and Mr Norman were awarded medals for bravery by authorities in Arras. "
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WTF people? What happened to protecting your passengers - was there not a single able bodied man available to at least check on the situation? That's disgraceful.
Also, I don't know about you guys, but it's not often I come across a modern centerfire cartridge that has a bum primer, especially 7.62x39mm. The luck involved in this story is just amazing. If that primer had worked, I'm pretty sure we'd be reading about a train massacre with at least 20-30 dead people involved. With that weapon, at those distances, yikes...it would have been ugly.
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