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Suspected IS Terrorist Goes on Trial in Paris

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   A suspected Islamic State gunman who opened fire aboard a high-speed
   train in France in 2015 is going on trial Monday in Paris.

   Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan national, was heavily armed when he
   opened fire and shot a passenger after the train traveling from
   Amsterdam to Paris crossed the border into France on August 21, 2015.

   A Frenchman, a Briton and three Americans, two of them in the military
   but on leave at the time, tackled Khazzani and disarmed him.

   Khazzani, 31, is charged with "attempted terrorist murder." He had
   joined the Islamic State group in Syria in May 2015. If convicted, he
   faces a maximum sentence of life in jail.

   A judicial source has said that Khazzani had confessed to investigators
   he planned to attack U.S. soldiers and not civilians.

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