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2025-06-06 Home Front: WoT
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Colorado hostage rally attacker indicted on 118 counts, including attempted murder
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The saga continues — follow the links at the bottom of this post back from article to article back to the original attack on june 2nd. No new names — yesterday we added wife Hayem El Gamal to high school graduating daughter Habiba Soliman, but today we learn that the two spellings of the miscreant’s Christian name are from the affidavit. [IsraelTimes] Mohamed Sabry Soliman also charged with assault, use of incendiary devices and animal cruelty for hurling firebombs at demonstrators; faces over 600 years in prison if convicted
A man accused of yelling "Free Paleostine" and throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
was charged with 118 counts, including 28 for attempted murder, in a Colorado court Thursday.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, who has been nabbed
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since his arrest following Sunday’s attack, was advised of the charges during a hearing in Boulder, where he appeared in person. Investigators say Soliman, who posed as a gardener, planned it for a year.
The 118 counts include attempt to commit murder, assault in the first and third degrees, use of explosive or incendiary devices and animal cruelty. He has also been charged with a hate crime in federal court and is nabbed
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on a $10 million cash bond.
Soliman’s attorney, Kathryn Herold, waived a formal reading of the charges Thursday. A preliminary hearing has been set for July 15 to determine whether the state has enough evidence to move forward.
"The charges reflect the evidence that we have regarding this horrific attack that took place and the seriousness of it," Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney, said at a news conference after the hearing.
The attempted murder charges alone could result in Soliman being sentenced to as many as 672 years if convicted, Dougherty said.
Authorities have said 15 people and a dog were victims of the attack. Not all were physically injured, and some are considered victims for the legal case because they were in the area and could potentially have been hurt. The dog was among the injured, Dougherty said.
Soliman is accused of trying to kill 14 people and faces two attempted murder charges for each.
Soliman had intended to kill all of the roughly 20 participants the weekly demonstration at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, but he threw just two of his 18 Molotov cocktails while yelling "Free Paleostine," police said.
Soliman did not carry out his full plan "because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before," police wrote in an affidavit.
Officers responded and took Soliman into custody about five minutes after the 911 call, Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said at the news conference.
According to an FBI affidavit, Soliman told police he was driven by a desire "to kill all Zionist people." Authorities said he expressed no remorse.
Boulder County officials said in a statement that the victims included eight women and seven men ranging in age from 25 to 88.
The attack unsettled the community just a week before the Boulder Jewish Festival. Redfearn said there will be enhanced security for that event, including SWAT teams, drones and likely plainclothes officers.
DEFENDANT’S FAMILY INVESTIGATED
Soliman told authorities he acted alone and did not inform his wife and five children, who have not been charged in the attack but were taken into custody Tuesday by immigration officials. The following day a judge granted a request to block their deportation.
Attorneys for the family had sued over their detention, writing in their complaint that "It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives."
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the plaintiff’s claims "absurd" and "an attempt to delay justice." She said the entire family was living in the US illegally.
When asked whether Soliman’s family was under investigation, Dougherty, the district attorney, did not give a clear answer and said the investigation was ongoing.
Soliman’s wife, Hayam El Gamal, a 17-year-old daughter, two minor sons and two minor daughters were being held at an immigration detention center in Texas, said Eric Lee, an attorney representing the family. El Gamal said she was "shocked" to learn of his arrest, according to the lawsuit.
THE FAMILY’S IMMIGRATION STATUS
Before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, Soliman spent 17 years in Kuwait, according to court documents.
He arrived in the US in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired in February 2023, McLaughlin said in a post on the social platform X. She said he filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023, but that has also expired.
Hundreds of thousands of people overstay their visas each year in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.
Soliman’s wife is an Egyptian national, according to her lawsuit. She is a network engineer and has a pending EB-2 visa, which is available to professionals with advanced degrees, the suit said. She and her children all are listed as dependents on Soliman’s asylum application.
Oh well. Too late for that now. A VIGIL FOR THE VICTIMS
Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder for a vigil Wednesday evening that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the the attack.
Rachelle Halpern, who was part of the demonstration Sunday, recalled thinking it was strange to see a man with a canister looking like he was going to spray pesticide on the grass. Then she heard a crash and screams and saw flames around her feet.
"A woman stood one foot behind me, engulfed in flames from head to toe, lying on the ground with her husband," Halpern said. "People immediately, three or four men immediately rushed to her to smother the flames."
Her description prompted murmurs from the audience. One woman’s head dropped into her hands.
"I heard a loud noise, and the back of my legs burning, and don’t remember those next few moments," one victim, who did not want to be identified and spoke off camera, said over the event’s speakers. "Even as I was watching it unfold before my eyes, even then, it didn’t seem real."
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, disguised as a gardener, had planned to kill all of the roughly 20 participants in Sunday's demonstration and had 18 Molotov cocktails, but he threw just two while yelling "Free Palestine," police said. Soliman, who federal authorities say has been living in the U.S. illegally, didn't carry out his full plan "because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before," police wrote in an affidavit.
The two incendiary devices he threw were enough to injure 12 of the participants in the weekly demonstration held at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall in downtown Boulder, authorities said, noting that he expressed no remorse about the attack.
Soliman told authorities that no one, including his family, knew about his plans for the attack, according to court documents that, at times, spelled his name as "Mohammed."
Soliman was born in el-Motamedia, an Egyptian farming village in the Nile Delta province of Gharbia that's located about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Cairo, according to an Egyptian security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media. Soliman was also a handball player for a club in Cairo, the club's former chairman wrote on Facebook.
Witnesses and police have said Soliman threw two incendiary devices, catching himself on fire as he hurled the second. Soliman took off his shirt and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest before police arrived and arrested him, said witness Alex Osante of San Diego.
Solimon told authorities he had gas in a backpack sprayer but didn't spray it on anyone but himself because "he had planned on dying," officials said.
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