Train Gunman 'Linked' To Radical Islamic Group

1	A lawyer for the Moroccan man accused of opening fire on a train to Paris says his client found the weapons and planned a robbery.
2	The gunman overpowered on a Paris-bound train had ties to radical Islam and was under surveillance in three countries, reports say.
3	The suspect, who is believed to have recently travelled to Syria, is being questioned by French police after opening fire on the train as it passed through Belgium.
4	After being subdued by passengers, the suspect was arrested when the train reached the nearest station at Arras, northern France.
5	The 26-year-old Moroccan national, named by Spanish media as Ayoub el Khazzani, was moved to the anti-terror police headquarters outside Paris on Saturday morning and can be held for up to 96 hours.
6	French authorities say the suspect had previously lived in the southern Spanish city of Algeciras and frequented a mosque under surveillance there.
7	Spanish authorities had informed French intelligence about him because he belongs to a "radical Islamist movement", French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
8	French police confirmed through fingerprints the man had been on their radar since February 2014.
9	He was also known to the Belgian authorities, reports say.
10	It also emerged the suspect is thought to have travelled to Syria in the last few months.
11	Would-be jihadists often head to Syria via Turkey.
12	The suspect was also arrested in Spain at least once for a drug-related offence, a source in Spanish counter-terrorism told Reuters.
13	But the man's lawyer said his his client had been shocked and surprised "to the point of being amused" when he was arrested.
14	He told police he found a bag in a park in Brussels containing guns and a knife and the idea came to him to rob people.
15	Three Americans - two servicemen and a student - and a British grandfather have been hailed as heroes after restraining the suspect on the train.