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FILE - In this Aug.21, 2015 file photo, a police officer videos the crime scene inside a Thalys train at Arras train station, northern France, after a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon. No one died, but few if any passengers on car 12 of a train to Paris would have reached their destination alive if the attack plot five years ago had gone off as planned, prosecutors contended at the month-long trial of an Islamic State operative. The proceedings end Thursday with the verdict. (AP Photo, File)

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Alek Skarlatos, center right, Anthony Sadler, right, Mark Moogalian, left, and their lawyer Thibault de Montbrial, center left, deliver a speech during the Thalys attack trial at the Paris courthouse, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Passengers who wrestled and disarmed an Islamic State gunman aboard a high-speed Amsterdam to Paris train are recounting how their split-second decisions helped prevent what could have become a mass slaughter. AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

American passenger recalls trying to kill train attacker

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Lawyer of Islamic State operative Ayoub El Khazzaniin, Sarah Mauger-Poliak, arrives on the opening day of the Thalys attack trial, at the Paris courthouse, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. El Khazzani goes on trial Monday Nov. 16, 2020, in France on terror charges for appearing on a train with an arsenal of weapons and shooting one passenger in 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Trial in France for extremist foiled by 3 Americans on train

By Elaine Ganley and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press