Arab Media Report: Egypt Warned U.S. That Boulder, Colorado Firebomber Was Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Member

On June 1, 2025, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman injured at least a dozen people marching at a gathering to support Israeli hostages in Gaza in Boulder, Colorado, shouting “Free Palestine” as he attacked demonstrators with Molotov cocktails and a homemade flamethrower, before being arrested at the scene.[1] The Egyptian-born Soliman entered the U.S. in 2022 as a non-immigrant visitor, after spending 17 years in Kuwait, and the following year received a two-year work authorization that expired in March 2025. He had previously sought asylum in the U.S. in 2005 but was denied a visa.

Soliman was described as a supporter of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB), which is banned in Egypt, and his Facebook account reportedly expressed support for MB-affiliated former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and for the MB’s 2013 protests against his removal in a military coup led by current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

In a June 6 article, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that Egyptians expressed “relief” that their country was not on President Trump’s recent ban list, after Trump defended his decision to exempt Egypt despite the Boulder attack, stating that it is “a country that we deal with very closely,” and “they have things under control.” It quoted Egyptian senator Dr. Abdel Moneim Saeed, who credited the decision not to include Egypt on the list to “the success of Egyptian diplomacy.”

Saeed claimed that his country had informed the U.S. “years ago” that Soliman was an MB member, explaining that “the issue of Washington’s position on the MB is one of the issues constantly under discussion between the two sides, and Egypt always warns against the results of including them.”

[1] See MEMRI TV Report: Boulder, CO Firebomber Mohamed Sabry Soliman Recorded Video Before Attack Declaring: Jihad Is More Beloved To Me Than My Mother, Wife, And Children; Allah Is Greater Than The Zionists And America, June 3, 2025.

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