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Three American men are being hailed as heroes for overpowering a heavily-armed gunman on a train in northern France.
The incident happened on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras, and the attacker was arrested at Arras station.
US President Barack Obama praised the passengers, who included two off-duty US military personnel.
The man arrested was a 26-year-old Moroccan. Anti-terrorist officers have taken over the case.
The gunman's weapons were said to include a Kalashnikov, a knife, an automatic pistol and cartridges.
French authorities said three people were injured, two of them seriously - one with a gunshot wound, the other a knife wound.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants.
"I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate. We must now focus on moving the war to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and specifically America," he said in an audio recording posted online on Sunday, referring to nations making up the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.
He suggested Muslim youth in the West take the Tsarnaev and Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Boston marathon bombings and Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris respectively, and others as examples to follow.
It was not clear when the recording was made but references to former Taliban leader Mullah Mohamed Omar as being alive suggest it is at least two months old. Omar's death was announced by Afghanistan's government in late July.
Zawahri reiterated his position on Islamic State, repeating what he said in a recording posted on Wednesday - that he viewed the group's claim to be a caliphate as illegitimate but would join them in fighting Western and secular forces in Iraq and Syria.
Former Egyptian doctor Zawahri urged unity between Islamist militant factions in Syria and Iraq, where a Western-led coalition is bombing Islamic State targets, but recognised it would he be difficult. He called for the formation of an independent sharia court to settle disputes.
Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/13/uk-mideast-zawahri-idUKKCN0RD0EK20150913
An Islamic extremist has been killed by police in the German capital of Berlin after he stabbed an officer in an apparent terror attack.
The 41-year-old Iraqi citizen, identified only as Rafik Y, was shot dead by police after they responded to calls of a man wielding a knife.
The dead man was one of three who were convicted for plotting to assassinate the former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, during his visit to Berlin in 2004.
As reported by The Telegraph, the female police officer was stabbed in the neck, just above her bulletproof vest, as she got out of her patrol car. The officer's partner then shot Rafik four times.
Russia just launched airstrikes in Syria. The Taliban just retake a city in Afghanistan. Nothing is happening in Yemen.
Is this still Jihad or the new cold war?
- Police believe Sydney shooting is ‘linked to terrorism’
- Gunman was 15-year-old Farad Jabar Khalil Mohammad of Iraqi-Kurdish background, from Iran
- He visited a mosque ahead of the shooting
- Victim has been identified as Curtis Cheng
- Australians urged to go about their day normally
AN EXTREMIST Muslim group held a conference at a Melbourne university over the weekend as the country reels from the shooting of a NSW police worker by a radicalised teenager.
Just a day after Friday’s fatal shooting, a controversial conference organised by fundamentalist Islamic group, the Islamic Research and Educational Academy, was held at Deakin University, The Australian reports.
The IREA’s two-day workshops were based on the teachings of Islamic scholars who have recommended the death penalty for homosexuals and apostates, promoted terrorism and preached hatred of Jews and Christians and violence against women.
Media gathered at Deakin’s Burwood campus on Sunday, but the IREA says on its Facebook page they were not allowed inside the venue as “the event was pre-registered”.
The event, dubbed ‘The Art of Da’wah’, was hosted by the ultraconservative Salafist organisation’s president Waseem Razvi.
The workshops promised to use the teachings of “legendary” scholars Zakir Naik and Ahmed Deedat to help attendees “learn the art and gain the confidence to talk about Islam to anyone, anywhere and at any time”.
Dr Naik, an Indian Muslim preacher who is a medical doctor by education, has been banned from countries including Britain, Canada and parts of India for his rhetorical support for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
After what happened in Parramatta - have a look at what is happening in Melbourne.
Melbourne university hosts extremist Muslim group in the wake of Sydney shooting
Hold on.
Banned in Britain, Canada and parts of India ? ? ? And then we let this idiot in to hold a conference? What is going on? ASIO asleep at the wheel?
Absolute lunacy letting that person in.
Someone at that University should be sacked.
I am beginning to wonder whether the right decision was made to dump Abbott.
They wonder where a 15 year old would get a gun .....
I seem to recall you were never a fan on Malcolm, preferring Scott Morrison instead?
I'm also guessing you aren't a fan of importing 'those" kind of brainwashed ghetto people?
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