told and i think you reported it that he was relatively well known as some sort of isis sympathizer to french authorities? he was on the radar screen for radical pro-jihadi views. they believe that he was indeed sympathetic to isis but they re still trying to sort through that to see exactly where his loyalties were. not clear at this point whether this was a lone wolf terrorist, somebody inspired by a group like isis, or somebody that actually traveled to somewhere like syrian iraq and learned how to use these kind of weapons. he had a kalashnikov, he was loading it as the marines surprised him in the toilet on the fast-speed train. presumably the marines feared something was up and felt that they needed to act to stop a lot of bloodshed on this train, wolf. could have been a huge, huge massacre. fortunately those two u.s. marines were there. one of them injured.
extraordinary events playing out in just the past few hours. did you say, paul, one of the marines was injured? reporter: my understanding is one of the marines was injured, was shot and has been injured quite severely, was shot with hand gun by the suspected terrorist as he tried to overpower the suspected terrorist in the toilets of this train from amsterdam to paris. stand by, paul. i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr who is monitoring what s going on. a pretty amazing story, very disturbing, this train from amsterdam to paris. two u.s. marines are involved, one of them seriously injured. what are you learning? reporter: wolf, we ve just received a statement from the pentagon in the last couple of minutes. keep in mind, all of these are first reports and in incidents like this, often the information changes in the opening hours. all i can tell you is what the
live here in the situation room. our correspondents and analysts are standing by to cover all the news that s breaking right now. first let s go to our terrorism analyst paul kruppcheck with more on that train attack amsterdam to paris. a senior european counterterrorism official telling me this is believed to be an islamist terrorist attack. the moroccan gunman was on the radar screen of european security agencies. the official also telling me that two u.s. marines in civilian clothing surprised the gunman in the toilet of this high-speed train as it traveled between amsterdam and paris, that when they surprised him in the train toilet, that the gunman with a handgun managed to get a round off. he was loading a kalashnikov at the time. the marines were able to overpower him despite the fact one of the marines was wounded and they were able to prevent a
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from amsterdam to paris wounding three people. the shooter is in custody. we re learning some u.s. marines were on that plane and may have prevented a massacre. our terrorism analyst is working his sources in your. what are you finding out, paul? reporter: a cnn european counterterrorism official saying they believe this was an islamist terrorist attack, that the moroccan gunman had been on their radar screen because of his radical, pro jihadi view, that two u.s. marines in civilian clothing surprised him in the toilets of this train as he loaded his rifle up. surprised him. he then shot off a gun, wounding one of the two u.s. marines, who then overpowered this islamist terrorist and prevented in the words of this senior counterterrorism official, a massacre on a train to paris.