Colorado terror suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman plotted antisemitic attack for 1 year: feds

Colorado terror suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman plotted antisemitic attack for 1 year: feds

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The hate-fueled Colorado firebomber disguised himself as a landscaper and used a garden hose filled with gasoline to spray flames at his victims in a heinous plot he had planned for more


than a year, Post sources and officials said Monday.


Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national and 45-year-old married father of five, meticulously chose the timing of his horrific “terror attack” in Boulder — waiting till just after his


daughter graduated from high school, officials said.


The suspect prepared for what he thought could turn into a suicide mission by spending months researching details, including on YouTube to learn how to make Molotov cocktails, officials


said.He ended up using Ball jars and gasoline to fashion them, choosing red rags for fuses, authorities said.


The deranged fiend also just as carefully chose his target, officials said.


Looking for victims to make his sick stand against Israel, Soliman zeroed in on a peaceful group on Facebook called Run for Their Lives, which had been gathering weekly in downtown Boulder


to honor the Israelis still held hostage by the terror group Hamas, the feds said.


He told authorities after his arrest that he “hated” the group and needed to stop it from taking over “our land,” which he explained meant Palestinian territory, according to court


documents.


Soliman found out exactly where and when the participants gathered every Sunday and finally chose this past Sunday afternoon to launch his assault, the feds said.


Before leaving his family’s home in Colorado Springs about an hour and a half from Boulder, Soliman left messages to his wife and children hidden in a desk drawer, authorities said


He then took off in his 2015 silver Toyota Prius, buying gas along the way for his incendiary weapons, court documents said.


Soliman, who was in the US illegally after overstaying his visa by more than two years, dressed up as a grounds worker and held a lighter in front of a garden hose filled with 87 octane


gasoline, shouting “free Palestine!” as he attempted to set his victims on fire, the complaint said.


He then lobbed a pair of Molotov cocktails, with cops finding 14 more in a plastic container near where he was arrested, officials said.


Documents recovered from his Prius allegedly included the words “Israel,” “Palestine” and “USAID.”


Soliman was hit with federal hate-crime charges along with raps involving attempted murder in the attack, which injured 12 people, including one critically.


During his interview with law enforcement, Soliman stated that he wanted to “kill all Zionist people” and that he “wished they were all dead,” the document revealed.


He also said he would launch the attack again if given the opportunity.


Video taken as the attack unfolded showed a bare-chested Soliman brandishing the incendiary devices.


He ended up removing his shirt when it caught fire as he wielded his homemade flamethrower.The victims were all transported to local hospitals, with one in critical condition. Soliman was


also injured and brought to a hospital for treatment after he was taken into custody.


A mugshot later released by the Boulder Police Department shows the deranged man wearing a large bandage over his right ear and appearing to have scorch marks on his face.


The White House called the sickening act of violence “an antisemitic terror attack,” and the FBI said it’s treating the attack as a “targeted act of terrorism.”


Boulder’s woke Police Chief Stephen Redfearn — who promised to emphasize “equitable” policing when he became chief last year — stopped short of calling the incident terrorism Sunday, urging,


“Now is not the time to be divisive” in a press conference.


Soliman first entered the US through Los Angeles International Airport on a B2 visa on Aug. 27, 2022, sources told The Post and Fox News.


Such visas are given to people who are supposed to be temporarily visiting the country for such things as tourism and to visit family and friends. Soliman’s visitor’s visa expired in


February 2023, sources told The Post.


Meanwhile, he applied for asylum in September 2022, sources said. He also applied for a work visa.


His asylum request was still pending at the time of the attack. His work visa had been granted but expired this past March.