FBI: Colorado suspect planned attack for a year, wanted to ‘kill all Zionist people’

The suspect who allegedly attacked a group of pro-hostage demonstrators yesterday in Colorado planned the attack for a year, the FBI says in an affidavit filed in a Colorado federal court.

The affidavit is based on suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s interview with law enforcement after his arrest.

It says Soliman threw two lit Molotov cocktails into the hostages rally while shouting “Free Palestine.” The firebombs ignited in the crowd, causing burn injuries to eight of the participants.

After he was arrested, a black plastic container was found nearby. Inside were at least fourteen unlit Molotov cocktails made of glass wine bottles or Ball jars with gasoline inside and red rags hanging out of the top.

Also nearby was a “backpack weed sprayer” with gasoline inside. Authorities have said Soliman used a “makeshift flamethrower” during the attack.

Law enforcement found a silver Toyota Prius parked a few blocks away that was registered to Soliman. Inside were a red gas container and papers with the words “Israel,” “Palestine,” and “USAID,” the affidavit says.

Soliman told law enforcement he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He assembled the firebombs and bought gas at a gas station on his way to Boulder. He lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, about two hours away, with his wife and five children. He was in the US illegally, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.

“He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead,” the affidavit says, adding that Soliman vowed to “do it again.”