Overview

• On June 1 in Boulder, Mohamed Sabry Soliman hurled Molotov cocktails and a jury-rigged flamethrower into a pro-Israel rally, leaving eight people aged 52 to 88 with burn injuries.
• Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national who overstayed his August 2022 nonimmigrant visa, was arrested at the scene and remains in custody.
• Within hours of the attack, the FBI launched a targeted terror investigation and publicly labeled the violence a “targeted terror attack.”
• Boulder’s police chief declined to classify the incident as terrorism, citing insufficient evidence about the suspect’s motive and the victims’ identities.
• CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem and ex-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe criticized the agency’s early use of the terror label as premature and potentially disjointed.