War is deceit, said Muhammad, and it looks as if Ayoub El Khazzani has taken those words to heart. He says he just happened upon a rifle (what a surprise!) and decided to commit a robbery, which apparently he planned to do by shooting people first and then leisurely relieving the corpses of their valuables.
What is amazing is that anyone would believe this nonsense, but of course the mainstream media is eating it up.
Here’s the reality: “A Spanish anti-terrorist official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed El Khazzani had lived in Spain until last year, moved to France then travelled to Syria where he is believed to have trained with ISIS before returning to France.” So reported the Express.
“Train attack gunman ‘dumbfounded’ by accusations of terrorism,” Daily Telegraph, August 23, 2015:
A HEAVILY-ARMED gunman who opened fire on a Paris-bound train has hit back at reports he’s a terrorist, as the American hero who subdued him broke his silence.
Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, said he is “dumbfounded” by accusations of terrorism after intelligence services in several countries said they had previously flagged him as a radical Islamist. French investigators are focusing on an extremist attack.
His comments come as video footage of the aftermath of the attack was posted online.
Khazzani is accused of boarding a high-speed train in Brussels bound for Paris on Friday armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Luger automatic pistol, nine cartridge clips and a boxcutter.
Witnesses say he opened fire, injuring a man before being wrestled to the floor by three American passengers and tied up, until the train stopped in the northern French city of Arras where he was taken into police custody.
Khazzani has denied any intention of waging a jihadist attack, saying he had merely stumbled upon a weapons stash and decided to use it to rob passengers, according to Sophie David, a lawyer assigned to his case.
“He is dumbfounded that his act is being linked to terrorism,” she told BFM-TV, adding the suspect who is believed to have lived in Belgium describes himself as a homeless man.
“He says that by chance he found a suitcase with a weapon, with a telephone, hidden away,” said Ms David, who is no longer representing him as Khazzani has been transferred to Levallois Perret near Paris where he is being questioned by counter terrorism officers.
“He said he found it in the park which is just next to the Midi Station in Brussels, where he often sleeps with other homeless people.”
“He says that the Kalashnikov didn’t work and he was brought under control immediately without a single shot being fired,” she added.
Fast-acting passengers
Armed with the weapons, the attacker exited a toilet cubicle on the high-speed train just after it crossed from Belgium into northern France.
A French passenger tried to disarm Khazzani — described as “small, slim, not very strong” — but he got away and fired at least one shot, wounding a Franco-American traveller in his 50s.
But the attack was quickly stopped when two off-duty US servicemen and their friend charged the gunman and restrained him. “I looked back and saw a guy enter with a Kalashnikov. My friends and I got down and then I said ‘Let’s get him’,” Alek Skarlatos, a 22-year-old member of the National Guard in Oregon who recently returned from Afghanistan, told France’s BFMTV.
Spencer Stone, who serves in the US air force, was first to the gunman, who slashed him in the neck and almost sliced off his thumb with a box-cutter.
“At that point I showed up and grabbed the gun from him and basically started beating him in the head until he fell unconscious,” said Mr Skarlatos.
His friend Anthony Sadler, a 23-year-old student at Sacramento State University, and a British business consultant, Chris Norman, then helped keep the man subdued….
A Spanish counterterrorism source said Khazzani had lived in Spain for seven years until 2014 and came to the attention of authorities for making hard line speeches defending jihad, as well as once being detained for drug trafficking.
German security services, meanwhile, flagged Khazzani when he boarded a flight from Berlin to Istanbul in May this year and in Belgium, Justice Minister Koen Geens confirmed Khazzani was “known” to the country’s intelligence services.

Renee says
He was so hungry, that he had to buy all these weapons to get a loaf of French bread by stealing some money from train passengers. Also, he had to buy a ticket for the train because robbing the supermarket on the street corner was not his thing. France must be a horrible country, you have to do all that just to get a loaf of bread.
mortimer says
This is an original approach to the legal contest. The judge should expect a very devious defense from this clown, one that changes every minute.
As a psychic, I see a lengthy future voyage for this fellow…to prison.
Caroline says
Why would he not be dumbfounded? He belongs to the RoP after all. How dare the filthy infidels doubt his word? It is highly plausible that he just happened to find an arms stash just before boarding the train. An army of human ignite lawyers will be send in to defend this poor, misunderstood man.
Caroline says
Rights not ignite. Autocorrect strikes again.
Mirren10 says
Actually, I thought ‘ignite’ was rather good, it’s precisely what these amoral scumbags do.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
No, no it’s better than that Carol! His law-yuh (as our dear Michael Savage would say) is a JEW. OK?
Yes, Ms. Sophie David is the Frenchie version, apparently, of our own beloved ACLU. They too have lots of Jews representing muslims.
I guess to show how, umm, uhh…what the heck does that show, aside from that Ms. David and the ACLU are guilty of terminal stupidity. I mean, I’m a lawyer (not the other kind!) and I get that everyone needs to be represented. But seeking out precisely the defendants who, above all things, wish to offend in only one area, i.e., kill ME and all like ME?
Legal ethics do not demand that.
So we can only conjecture that these people are surpassing morons but, into the bargain, suicidal.
Araf says
What is there about “the lawyer assigned to the case” that you don’t understand?
Sam Hawkins says
Why can’t the journalists get something so simple right?
He didn’t have “nine cartridge clips” with him, he had NINE MAGAZINES for the AK-47, each of which holds 30 rounds. Ammo enough to murder 270 people.
Mirren10 says
Because they don’t want to.
This was just a poor, homeless man, and he just happened to find a rifle, and he just happened to decide to shoot up a carriage full of kufr, and he’s a good muslim, and his father, and his mosque, and his imam, and his ‘community’ are just absolutely gobsmacked at the whole thing.
What are you, some kind of greasy islamophobe ?
Westman says
Don’t forget, he accidently cut one of the guys with a boxcutter that he was using to clean his fingernails. He found it on the train floor? He is misunderstood. There is nothing wrong with having a little fun with the kufir – just ask that good ‘ol boy, Al-Baghdadi.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Hey! This guy must be related to the illegal who killed our lovely Kate Steinle, in San Francisco last month.
His ‘explanation’ of how it happened that he-already with 7 felonies to this sheet-shot this gorgeous young woman in the back, as she walked with her father in San Fran Freako? ‘I just found a gun and it just…went off!’.
Which proves my point that Ms. David and our ACLU, have a lot in common. In fact it looks as if they share, perhaps not ‘talking points’, but criminal defenses. ‘Memo for Summer ’15-terrorist and illegal alien defendants to be pled NG, I-found-this-gun’.
Angemon says
And surprises no one by doing so – attempted theft comes with a lighter penalty than attempted murder, and the sooner he gets out, the sooner he can try to get entry into the heavenly brothel…
45charkie says
Nice one! Put the boots to him!
gravenimage says
France train jihadi who trained in Islamic State “dumbfounded” by terror accusations
…………………………..
Um…right. He had a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Luger automatic pistol, nine cartridge clips and a boxcutter so that he could hold up a few passengers for their watches and phones.
Besides, when has a robber ever started off by just opening fire? His victims–if not dead–would be more likely to flee in terror than to take time to hand over their wallets and laptops.
Also, how do you like the idea that he just stumbled upon this weapons cache?
As a pious Muslim, he believes the “filthy Infidels” are a pretty credulous bunch…
Susan says
We are seriously suppose to believe a pious muslim homeless man, stumbled upon a suitcase with weapons, ammo and a phone, then BOUGHT a train ticket to rob people? Why do Islam followers think we are so stupid? He is stupid if he thinks one person is going to buy into this defense! Thank you American’s, for stopping what could of been a horrible act of terrorism!
Wellington says
Risible excuse making and taqiyya of course, but I’d bet a case of my favorite beer (Yuengling Porter) that there are pc dhimmis aplenty who actually would be inclined to believe this barbarian, thus demonstrating again that the problem isn’t just Islam.
BTW, I had trouble again signing into JW. The first time today I tried I came up with a name I didn’t even recognize and was still not signed in. It took a third attempt to be finally signed in correctly. I convey this because others have indicated this particular difficulty too.
Wellington says
More log in problems. Many. Anyone else having this problem today?
Jay Boo says
Wellington
It might be an issue with the links.
It seems that when going directly to an article the link logs out.
But, the comments path to an article works.
celticwarriorcanada says
So what happened to the mighty mujihadeen warrior ? Armed with an A.K., a Pistol and a Box Cutter ! Overcome and subdued by a few(UNARMED ) U.S. Soldiers and a Civilian ! I always thought that THE ISIS TRAINING CAMP PROPAGANDA VIDEOS, HAD REALLY SHITTY MARTIAL ARTS AND CHOREOGRAPHY ! Kind of like, THE CHEAP CHEESY MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES PRODUCED BY THE SHAW BROTHERS IN THE LATE 60s . Then there’s the defeated losers who come on CNN , and talk like there is no hope : JUST GIVE THEM THEIR CALIPHATE ! UNLIKE these BRAVE AMERICAN VACATIONERS, who have proven once again; THAT SOME BRAVE SOULS IN THE WEST are willing to stand up to these RABID PUSSIES who want TO KILL and ENSLAVE U.S. ! P.S DEATH TO THE CALIPHATE !
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s like the line from the old farce, “Who ya gonna believe? Me, or your lyin’ eyes (and ears)?”
Muslims lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie.
Big, brazen lies. Lies even bigger than Goebbels’. Lies as big as Mohammed’s.
“Mohammed told such monstrous lies/ It made one Gasp, and Stretch One’s Eyes…” (to paraphrase Hilaire Belloc).
In this case, however, one can see the disconnect between the liar and the facts, because there were a lot of non-Muslim witnesses in that train carriage – including the first person who got a bad feeling about him and tried to tackle him – and I’ll *bet* there’s a lot of mobile phone film footage. I wonder whether the train carriages have CCTV? Bound to have. Surely. In which case, there would also be that. It’s going to get interesting in a court room if he persists in his lies, all the whilst that everybody else can *see* what actually happened, and see that he’s lying his head off.
He fired his gun. He damn near cut someone’s throat with the box cutter…and I wonder how many people remember the stewardess on board one of the hijacked planes on 9/11, who was killed in front of the passengers, her throat slashed with a box cutter. Lots of people saw and/ or heard what was happening. People heard a gun-shot. If he’s going to claim he didn’t fire a shot, then everybody else in the carriage is doing to say, “But he *did*”.
If he keeps on spouting lies, then more and more people are going to be thinking, “What a pity those soldiers didn’t hit him just a little bit harder”.
Lucretius says
“He says that by chance he found a suitcase with a weapon, with a telephone, hidden away”
Yes, he happened upon a hot new franchise set to take Europe by storm, The Terrorist Depot. It even has the same motto as The Home Depot: “You can do it, we can help.”
gerard says
re photo: Notice the bandage on his head reminding us that his brain has been removed and replaced with a copy the Koran and several knives and guns. Maybe also a bomb or two.
gerard says
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden Kalashnikov assault rifles..
PJG says
Ha ha, very good!
Jay Boo says
He said he found it in a loaded Kalashnikov in the park.
The mere fact that he would dare say such a thing with a strait face is not the least bit surprising since Muslims flood into Europe with outlandish made up stories every day and as long as the PC border officials can fill in their forms with a plausibly deniable excuse for making the stories fit the criteria for admittance the Muslim invasion continues.
Expect more supposedly twelve year old males with full beards, 3 wives and 10 children to pass through into places like Sweden.
Paraquat says
This whole thing is Israel’s fault. Mossad put that AK-47 plus pistol and box cutters on the train, which Moroccan national Upyours El Jihadi innocently mistook for a Koran. He was in the rest room loading the AK so he could fire a few hundred celebratory rounds into fellow passengers, which is the duty of every Muslim whenever they board a train. But those Zionist US marines suddenly grabbed the weapon, violating his human rights. Damn Islamophobic Jews – you just can’t trust them!
David M says
Stand up comedians all over the world must be loving this explanation, there’s about 1/2 hour worth of material from this Muslim turd already.
Phobic-ist says
Sadly, most stand up ‘comedians’ are vile stinking Marxist scum, who couldn’t tell a joke to save their miserable lives, so they would be unable to find any humorous angle in this incident…..well, maybe that ‘Thatcher done it’ or the Jews or something, you know the drill…..
Angemon says
Some comedians see what’s going on and opt to play it safe rather than making waves:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically-correct-college-campuses
Ed says
I think it’s jolly decent of him not to press assault charges for the passengers that overpowered him.
shrugger says
This story has been changing daily. Think I’ll just wait till everyone concurs on exactly what happened.
Jay Boo says
Off Topic
No porn at Hajj
Muslims are being advised not to bring pornography or sexual oils when visiting Mecca for the Hajj according to the India Times.
Carlos Danger says
I’m sort of surprised that he would claim to be a miserable robber instead of an honourable soldier of Allah seeking the crown of martyrdom in battle. Maybe he should have a hand and a foot amputated.