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friend, who is also in the military, had been injured while he grappled with
the gunman.
He said: "I just got back from Afghanistan last month, and this was my
vacation from Afghanistan."
Photos from the scene show one of the injured, believed to be a US soldier,
and the attacker being arrested.
Known to security services
It has been revealed the gunman is known to European authorities as a
suspected Islamist militant if the identity he has given is correct.
French and Spanish press have named the gunman as Ayoub El-Kahzzani
tonight. It's thought he recently travelled to Syria yet was not considered a
sufficient threat to put under surveillance.
It has been reported that the suspect was known to three European
intelligence agencies, and Belgium has announced extra security patrols on
its high-speed trains.
France's interior minister said on Saturday that if he was telling the truth
"he is a 26-year-old man of Moroccan nationality identified by the Spanish
authorities to French intelligence services in February 2014 because of his
connections to the radical Islamist movement".
The man Spanish authorities had under surveillance left Spain for France in
2014, travelled to Syria, and then back to France, a Spanish counterterrorism source said on Saturday.
In Spain, he lived in the southern port of Algeciras and appeared to have
stayed in the country for about a year, the source said.