France honors Americans, Briton who disarmed train gunman

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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Monday awarded France's highest honor, the Legion d'honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. You are the incarnation of that," Hollande told the four men. The suspect's lawyer said on Sunday the man named by intelligence sources as Ayoub el Khazzani, 26, of Morocco, is "dumbfounded" they had him down as a suspected Islamist militant.




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