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Foiled France train attack highlights Europe's very modern terror problem
"This attack didn't happen because it was an international train that crossed borders in the Schengen area," Dr Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank told Newsweek. "It could have happened on any busy commuter train in any metropol in Western Europe. So it is a mistake to think it was targeted because it was a Thalys train."