The Federal Bureau of Investigation says an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa has been arrested and charged in a violent terror attack that left six people injured during a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder on Saturday.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was taken into custody at the scene after allegedly launching Molotov cocktails into a crowd gathered near the Pearl Street Mall for a “Run for Their Lives” event. The demonstration was held in solidarity with Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Witnesses reported that Soliman shouted “Free Palestine” and other anti-Israel slogans as the firebombs ignited, setting multiple elderly participants ablaze. The victims, ranging in age from 67 to 88, sustained serious injuries. Emergency responders were quick to arrive and began treating the wounded while securing the area.
The FBI has labeled the incident a “targeted terror attack.” FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a statement posted to X (formerly Twitter) that agents were “fully investigating” the matter. “Our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available,” Patel wrote.
Prior to this terror attack, two Israeli diplomats were fatally shot in May outside the Capital Jewish Museum.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency is dedicating its full resources to the investigation and made it clear that authorities intend to pursue anyone who may have played a role in the planning or execution of the assault.
“This was a deliberate act of terrorism,” Bongino said. “We are treating it with the utmost seriousness. Anyone who aided or abetted this attacker in any way will be found and held accountable.”
Federal immigration records show Soliman entered the United States legally two years ago when granted a visa by the Biden Administration but failed to depart after his visa expired. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit. It is not yet known whether he had any prior criminal history or connections to extremist groups. Authorities are reviewing his digital footprint, travel records, and potential contacts within the US.
The attack sent shockwaves through the Boulder community, which has seen a growing number of politically motivated demonstrations in recent months. Organizers of the “Run for Their Lives” event expressed sorrow over the violence but reaffirmed their commitment to peaceful advocacy.
The victims’ names have not been publicly released, and local hospitals report that several remain in serious condition. Law enforcement was asking the public to come forward with any video or photographic evidence from the scene that may assist in the investigation.
Federal charges against Soliman are expected in the coming days.
America needs to free itself from international terrorism. Israel, using America’s armament and money, is relentlessly pursuing a genocide. We need to at least pretty please ask Israel to tone it down a bit.
It’s called a WAR that HAMAS started, you useful idiot.
BS.
Total BS.
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If hamass were to lay down their arms and pursue peace in the middle east, there would be peace.
If Israel were to lay down their arms, there would be no Israel.
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The Jews just want to be left alone.
The muslims just want all Jews dead.
And, If they ever achieve that goal, Christians are next.
Yet CB, Israel wants to share torture, trauma, mutilation, sepsis, dehydration, starvation and death. They apparently do not want to be left alone.
If hamas, hezbola, and Iran stopped attacking, Israel would stand down.
Exactly how many unguided missiles are fired into Israel every year? These missiles are aimed at civilian targets.
Contrast that to Israeli strikes into muslim held territories. Where Israel will air drop flyers telling the civilians to leave the area, and they will broadcast text messages saying an attack is incoming.
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And, still, hamass places missile launchers in and on schools and hospitals. They threaten anyone who complains.
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Why are the people in Gaza starving? There is plenty of food coming in from any number of sources. Weird how it never seems to get to the population as a whole. But, somehow the hamass fighters seem to be well fed. And, it is Israel’s fault? Please explain how.
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Reality tells a very different story than you do. It is a story of a government that is using their population as pawns, and ignoring their plight. It is about a government that is shooting their civilians because they are taking food, but telling the world it was Israel that did it. (turns out video proves otherwise.)
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If the residents of Gaza are being tortured, traumatized, mutilated, infected, dehydrated, and starved, it is because of hamass, not Israel.
Events like this are all a central part of the global intifada. Violence is central to this movement and the antisemitic apologists will surely find a way to blame Jews and Israel at any chance they can while telling us they aren’t antisemitic. The irony is completely lost on those claiming they aren’t antisemitic because they are just anti-zionist all while demanding that Palestinians get their own country. Palestinians are Arabs, the Middle East is full of Arabian countries and none of them want to anything to do with the Palestinians.
Attacking people who are showing support for those who were kidnapped and held hostage by terrorists is what the global intifada is and it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.
38 Arab countries, if I’m not mistaken.
Even if other Muslim countries offer to take them in, many palestinians would not go.
The PLO loves it’s misery, and the status of being the biggest whiners in the world.
It’s a shame our naive college kids follow these troublemakers.
Diversity is our strength.
Israel was attacked. When you attack someone you don’t get to call the shots on how things play out. Really? You are trying to turn this Dem fruitloop’s Dem attack on innocent people on Israel? How far out of reality do you live? The attacker with Molotov cocktails isn’t a Jew, he is just some Dem influenced by Dem rhetoric. Your brain needs a reboot!
He’s a recently arrived Egyptian who overstayed his visa.
The Dems didn’t make him this way.
Being a Muslim from Egypt did
(although libs in Colo. fully supported his feelings I’m sure)
Well manny when you aid terrorists for years and years there is a good chance it’s going to come back to haunt you. I’m not happy to see little kids getting killed either but the adults own it. Hamas
attack on Israel in October of 23 was gross. These groups are funded by Iran. Common Palestinians should have driven the terrorists off from their land years ago. You play with fire you get burned.
Let AIPAC run our foreign policy, Bomb the entire Middle East for Israel, displace all the Arabs to western nations and then act surprised when multiculturalism is a disaster. Smart move neocons. Just what the founders had in mind for their beautiful white nation. What? The magic dirt of America didn’t turn them into Anglo saxons? Arabs and Jews are brothers from a far off foreign land, why are we tolerating them here?
So,you’re assuming that Israel is as incompetent as our mayor? If it truly was a” genocide” , as you claim, they send to be missing awfully many of the targets. If it truly was a grnocide, they’d just have gassed Gaza,and killed everyone there. In one simple stroke. You haven’t want bought this through, and are just Repeating other peoples’talking pointx
His tourist visa expired over a year ago. A simple data base sampling should have issued a deportation order last year. Government is broken beyond repair
Now… that is something you and I agree on.
Which makes me ask. Why are you so upset when President Trump does what the previous administration refused to do? Actually enforce the law.
Molotov you say? Welcome to the industrial age there, Soilman.
Aloha snackbar.
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