FBI Raids Colorado Home of Terror Suspect While Trump Administration Accuses Biden of Allowing ‘Illegal Alien’ to Remain in the US

The home of a suspected illegal alien who is believed to have carried out a horrific firebomb terror attack at a pro-Israel event in Colorado was surrounded by the police last night.

The suspect, identified as Mohamed Soliman, aged 45, allegedly used a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack a group of around 30 peaceful protesters in Boulder. The brutal assault resulted in eight victims being set on fire.

The wounded, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, were quickly taken to the hospital on Sunday evening with various injuries, with at least one individual listed in critical condition.

Soliman arrived in the United States from Egypt in August 2022, but overstayed his initial tourist visa and was ultimately handed a two-year work permit by the Biden administration, which he also overstayed, DHS sources told Fox News.

The Trump administration turned up the heat on Biden overnight, demanding answers as to why Soliman was allowed to remain in the country despite twice breaching the conditions of his visa.

‘Suicidal migration must be fully reversed,’ White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said. ‘The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit. 

‘Immigration security is national security. No more hostile migration. Keep them out and send them back.’ 

Soliman’s latest work permit lapsed in March 2025. The sources said he had filed a claim with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services on September 9, 2022, and the status of that claim remains unclear. 

Authorities revealed late on Sunday night that the casualty toll had risen from six to eight as the investigation into Soliman’s alleged actions continues.

The victims, aged between 52 and 88, were taking part in the weekly Run for Their Lives event which raises awareness for the hostages being held captive in Gaza.

Two of them had to be airlifted to a burn unit with serious injuries, while the remainder suffered minor injuries. In addition to the Holocaust refugee, who has been described as a ‘very loving person’, a second victim is a professor at Colorado University. 

The FBI was quick to describe Soliman’s actions as hate motivated and an act of terror.  

Officers within the FBI’s Denver unit arrived at a home linked to the suspect to conduct ‘court-authorized law enforcement activity’ as part of the investigation.

The unassuming El Paso County home was surrounded by officers as confused neighbors noted they didn’t know the residents of the address well.

‘As this is an ongoing investigation, no additional information is available at this time,’ the FBI said.

According to The New York Times, a woman was allowed to enter the home which had been identified as belonging to Soliman.  

And according to CNN, senior officials are closely examining the 45-year-old’s mental health history.

‘He’s shirtless, screaming, used rudimentary (explosive) devices, and stuck around to be arrested,’ one source said.

The source said Soliman’s method of attack did not align with a thought-out plan to cause large scale casualties.

But chilling footage clearly demonstrated that Soliman was able to exact terror upon his targets at Pearl Street Mall just before 1:30pm local time on Sunday.

Witnesses recalled the horror of seeing victims writhe around on the floor in pain as their skin melted off their bodies as Soliman paced up and down shouting vile accusations at the traumatized group.

One witness, identified only as Brian, said he watched Good Samaritans rush toward the carnage to offer assistance to the victims.

One woman was being wrapped up and attended to on the ground. Another, he said, ‘looked like their skin had just melted off their bodies.

‘He was very erratic, shouting and spewing terrible things at different people.’ During the attack, he was shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at the Jewish demonstrators.

California tourist Alex Osante was eating at an Italian restaurant off Boulder’s famed Pearl Street pedestrian mall when he heard a ‘big boom’ and saw a woman ‘on fire from head to toe on fire.’ 

Within minutes, a nearby man ran to his table to grab two bottles of water before rushing back to victims writhing in flames on the ground.

‘People were screaming and yelling … tripping over each other,’ he told Daily Mail.

‘The terrorist had a Molotov cocktail in his hand. He had two other bottles, and he threw a bottle at the group, and a lady caught on fire from head to toe – fully immersed in fire.

‘And then the other few people, maybe four others, were also on fire – but not as bad,’ he said.

He said he saw victims lying on the grass and writhing around while it felt ‘way too long’ until first responders arrived.

Meanwhile, Soliman appeared to taunt the victims while brandishing bottles of alcohol for the Molotov cocktails in each hand as smoke rose from the scene.

Wearing only jeans and sunglasses, he yelled: ‘End Zionists… they are terrorists’ and ‘free Palestine’. He also said: ‘How many children have you killed?’ according to the ADL Center on Extremism. 

Ed Victor, who was participating in the walk, told CBS he and a group of about 30 people had gathered for their demonstration on Sunday afternoon as they had every week since the October 7 attacks. 

He said they would sing songs and share the names of the hostages in Gaza each week.

Sometimes they were heckled, often they were praised and clapped by onlookers. Whatever reception they received, they never expected to be attacked.

Sharing details of Sunday’s chilling events, he said: ‘So we stood up, lined up in front of the old Boulder courthouse, and I was actually on the far west side.

‘And there was somebody there that I didn’t even notice, although he was making a lot of noise, but I’m just focused on my job of being quiet and getting lined up.

‘From my point of view, all of a sudden, I felt the heat.

‘It was a Molotov cocktail equivalent, a gas bomb in a glass jar, thrown. Av [another marcher] saw it, a big flame as high as a tree, and all I saw was someone on fire.’

While another participant who had medical experience rushed in to help the victim, Victor stayed back with her husband, providing him comfort.

Street performer Peter Irish described witnessing the horrors of the attack as ‘traumatic’. 

‘I saw the aftermath,’ he told CBS Colorado. ‘It was like minutes after. I came out, it was chaos, people were writhing on the ground. It was traumatic to watch, to be honest with you. It was chaos.’

Jewish human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center told DailyMail.com the Boulder attack came on the first day of a religious holiday. 

‘On the eve of Shavuot, a sacred celebration of Jewish identity and tradition, we are forced yet again to confront a horrifying reality: Being Jewish, supporting Israel, or simply gathering as a community now makes American Jews a target,’ the center’s CEO Jim Berk said.

The incident has attracted an outpouring of support for the community and outrage for the suspect’s actions, particularly as the Jewish diaspora in America still reels from the shooting death of two young embassy employees just a fortnight ago.

FBI Director Kash Patel called the incident a ‘terror attack’ while Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said it ‘appears to be a hate crime given the group that was targeted.’

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres blamed a ‘hate movement’ for contributing to rising anti-Semitism in the community, while Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino issued a chilling warning that his department would not rest until justice was served.

‘If you aided or abetted this attack, we will find you. You cannot hide,’ he said.