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Early reports that U.S. Marines were involved proved unfounded; the U.S. Marine Corps at the Pentagon said that the service members on the train weren’t Marines.
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U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, recounting for the first time on Sunday how a likely catastrophe was averted two days earlier, said the gunman, an assault rifle strapped to his bare chest...
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The gunman, identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani... . El-Khazzani's lawyer said on Sunday that he was homeless and trying to rob passengers on the train to feed himself.
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"We just kind of acted."
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He claims to have found the weapons in a park near the Brussels train station where he had been sleeping, stashed them for several days and then decided to hold up train passengers.
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El-Khezzani boarded in Brussels with what France's interior minister said was an arsenal of weapons that included an automatic pistol, numerous loaded magazines and the box cutter.
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"When most of us would run away, Spencer, Alek and Anthony ran into the line of fire, saying `Let's go.' Those words changed the fate of many," U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley said.