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Breaking news as we speak! A terrorist event averted. The events as reported thanks to Freeper from only a few hours ago in reverse chronological order:

"French official: 2 Americans subdued train gunman"

"PARIS — A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people before being subdued by two American passengers, officials said. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking in Arras in northern France where the suspected was detained, said one of the Americans was hospitalized with serious wounds. Their names were not immediately released"

"Unarmed US Marine 'in critical condition' after Kalashnikov-wielding suspected terrorist"

"Unarmed US Marine 'in critical condition' after Kalashnikov-wielding suspected terrorist on board high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. An unarmed US Marine who ambushed a Kalashnikov-wielding gunman on a train between Amsterdam and Paris is in critical condition, according to French media reports. The serviceman, who has not been named, was one of two Americans who tackled the 26-year-old Moroccan national to the ground after hearing him load up a gun in the toilet. In the scuffle, one of the Marines was shot and another stabbed. France Info reports one is in a critical condition"

"BREAKING NEWS: Unarmed US Marines 'take down' gunman onboard a high-speed train (France)"

"A gunman opened fire on board a high speed train in northern France. Eyewitnesses said three U.S. Marines on the train disarmed the gunman. The man was armed with a deadly a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle. Three people were wounded and the gunman is currently in police custody."

"Gunman 'injures three after firing Kalashnikov' on Amsterdam-Paris train: latest"

"A man has been arrested after firing a Kalashnikov rifle on board an Amsterdam-Paris train, according to French media. Le Parisien reports that a Briton and an American are 'seriously' wounded. A third person, the French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, was also wounded and is said to have raised the alarm. La Voix du Nord, a newspaper in the Calais region, said a man was arrested on suspicion of firing the weapon on a Thalys train near the northern town of Arras. Police say that have not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive"

A major massacre has been averted. An apparent terrorist was ready and loaded and his actions stopped by passengers that apparently included some U.S. Marines. UNARMED!!

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