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Obama said he just wanted “a chance to shake their hands in person and to tell them what I think they’ve heard from a lot of people – which is they represent the very best of America, American character”.

Three Americans who had a hand in taking down a would-be global terrorist in France last week, have been awarded the country’s highest acknowledgement; the Legion of Honor.

As the train passed through Belgium, the three subdued the gunman, tackling him in the train aisle, grabbing his rifle and tying him up.

He added that it also will be up to each service’s uniform regulations to determine whether Stone and Skarlatos can wear the Legion of Honor; generally foreign awards are not worn except “under certain circumstances when you’re in dress uniform”.

The Moroccan suspect in a foiled attack on a high-speed train in France is facing terrorism charges over what authorities say was a plan to unleash carnage among hundreds of passengers – but his family defended him Wednesday, saying he was in a desperate situation.

The terrorist suspect also carried a a 9mm handgun, a box-cutter and a bottle of petrol. “You behaved as soldiers but also as responsible men”.

French investigators had just hours left Tuesday to decide whether to charge a suspect in a high-speed train attack that was foiled by passengers, as it emerged he watched a jihadist video just before boarding.

The French-American academic, 51, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.

Molins said El-Khazzani notably watched an online video inciting radical violence minutes before the thwarted attack. But his explanation grew less and less lucid, the prosecutor said, and the suspect eventually stopped speaking to investigators at all. He said he rallied when he...

Sadler is one of the three American men who became instant heroes on Friday when they tackled and subdued a gunman on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

A 51-year-old Sorbonne professor, Armenian-American Mark Moogalian, has been identified by the UK’s the Telegraph daily as the first passenger to tackle gunman Ayoub El-Khazzani on August 21 aboard the Amsterdam-Paris train.

Mr Stone was joined by friends US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento State University student Anthony Sadler at a press conference at the US Embassy in Paris.

U.S. citizens Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, along with a British Citizen and a French Actor, arrived at the French president’s residence this morning to receive the Legion of Honor. Photo of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone. The men tackled and...

Fighting a terrorist was probably the last thing student Anthony Sadler, Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, a National Guardsman had on their minds as traveled through Europe. He added that he acted out of “survival – and for my friends and...

‘My friend yells, ‘Get him!’ . The men tackled and subdued him and he was taken into custody in France.