Boulder illegal immigrant terror suspect worked in healthcare field, as rideshare driver before attack
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, first came to the United States on a non-immigrant visa in August 2022. When that visa expired in February 2023, he remained in the country. The following month, he was granted a work visa, which was valid through March of this year.
Fox News Digital has learned that Soliman worked in accounting at a medical practice called Veros Health, headquartered in the Denver suburb of Centennial, for a brief period at the beginning of his lawful work stay in the country.
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"We can confirm that Mohamed Soliman worked with Veros from May 2023 to August 2023," a company spokesperson said. "He was hired in our accounting department. He went through a hiring process with ADP, our employer [Professional Employer Organization]. At the time of hire, he was confirmed to have a valid work visa, which was noted to expire in March 2025."
Earlier this year, Soliman began working as a rideshare driver. His lawful work visa expired in March, making him an illegal immigrant at the time of the attack.
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A neighbor told Fox News Digital that Mohamed Soliman worked for Uber and was "not home that often" because he was "working really hard."
Soliman began working for the rideshare company in the spring of 2023, Uber said.
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The company further noted that all drivers must meet numerous eligibility requirements, including passing a criminal and driving history background check, providing a photo ID, and holding a valid Social Security number. Soliman met all the requirements per Colorado state law, Uber said.
He also had no concerning feedback while driving for the platform, according to Uber, which has since banned his driver's account and contacted law enforcement.
Soliman is accused of using makeshift incendiary devices, including a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, in an attempt to burn pro-Israel demonstrators alive on Sunday.
A group of "Run for Their Lives" advocates had gathered at the Pearl Street Mall to raise awareness about Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza before they were viciously attacked.
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The attack left 12 people injured, one critically. One of the victims was a Holocaust survivor.
Soliman has been charged federally with a hate crime involving actual or perceived race, religion, or national origin.
Federal charging documents detail how Soliman shouted "Free Palestine" during the attack.
"He traveled to Boulder, Colorado, in his vehicle with the Molotov cocktails and threw two of the cocktails at individuals participating in a pro-Israel gathering," the complaint says. "He also stated that he picked up gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead."
He also allegedly stated "he would do it…again."
At the state level, he has been charged with first-degree murder, crimes against at-risk adults/elderly, assault, criminal attempt to commit class one and class two felonies and use of explosives or incendiary devices during a felony.Original article source: Boulder illegal immigrant terror suspect worked in healthcare field, as rideshare driver before attack
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43 minutes ago
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Trump tells Israel to ‘finish the job' against Hamas weeks after suggesting ceasefire deal in sight
Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed confident a deal was days away that would end the fighting in Gaza, secure the release of hostages and allow aid to flow into an enclave where people are starving to death. Now, Trump's optimism seems to have vanished. The president pulled back his negotiators from ceasefire talks this week after the US deemed Hamas neither 'coordinated' nor 'acting in good faith.' Steve Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy, said he was looking into 'alternative options' for getting the hostages out. And Trump, rather than urging an immediate return to the negotiating table, signaled Friday it was time for Israel to escalate its military campaign, even as images of starving children in Gaza lead to mounting global outrage. 'I think they want to die, and it's very, very bad,' Trump said of Hamas before leaving for a weekend trip to Scotland. 'It got to be to a point where you're gonna have to finish the job.' 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'Now we're down to the final hostages, and they know what happens after you get the final hostages, and basically, because of that, they really didn't want to make a deal,' Trump said, echoing a sentiment that one US official said Netanyahu conveyed when he met with Trump for dinner at the White House earlier this month. Whether Trump's comments will actually pressure Hamas into agreeing to the existing proposal to end the war remains to be seen, but they did appear designed in part to try to jog Hamas back to the realm of what is achievable. In the wake of Witkoff's Thursday statement, the senior Israeli official said Israel hopes Hamas will 'reconnect itself to reality' so the remaining gaps can be bridged. Speaking to CNN on Friday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce predicted Trump and Witkoff's efforts would eventually yield results, though she declined to indicate what direction the talks would head next. 'We've tried. The world has watched this. What the options are — clearly there are many tools in President Trump's tool chest, many options that Special Envoy Witkoff has,' Bruce told Kate Bolduan. 'So, they are very smart, adept individuals who know the players. And I expect that we'll have some success.' Neither Bruce, nor Trump, nor any other administration official seemed willing to place a timeline on when that success might come, perhaps wary after Trump predicted in early July that a deal would be struck within a week. But as the starvation crisis in Gaza spirals into a humanitarian catastrophe, urgency is growing to complete a deal. During a meeting in Tunis on Friday, Tunisian President Kais Saied presented Trump's senior Africa adviser Massad Boulos — who is also the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany — with photos of malnourished children, desperate for food and eating sand. 'It is absolutely unacceptable,' Saied could be heard saying, according to AFP. 'It is a crime against all of humanity.' At the White House, Trump said it was Hamas that was preventing aid from being distributed. And he said the US hadn't received enough credit for the help it had already provided. 'People don't know this, and we didn't certainly get any acknowledgement or thank you, but we contributed $60 million to food and supplies and everything else,' he said. 'We hope the money gets there, because you know, that money gets taken. The food gets taken. We're going to do more, but we gave a lot of money.' An internal US government review found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas of US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza. Meanwhile, top US allies have adopted a tougher stance on Israel's military campaign. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom Trump will meet in Scotland this weekend, on Friday said 'Israel's disproportionate military escalation in Gaza' was 'indefensible.' And French President Emmanuel Macron, in a surprise late night social media post, said France would move to recognize a Palestinian state at September's United Nations General Assembly, a step that angered Israel and that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called 'a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.' Trump sounded less troubled by the move, which he instead dismissed as pointless. 'The statement doesn't carry any weight,' he said. 'He's a very good guy. I like him. But that statement doesn't carry weight.' CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this story.
