Colorado Terrorist Claims He Was Just Practicing For Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony

BOULDER, CO - 45-year-old Egyptian national Mohamed Soliman was arrested and charged with terrorism on Monday after injuring a dozen people with Molotov cocktails at a Jewish charity event.

While Soliman is being held under a $10 million bond and facing up to 645 years in prison, he claims the whole ordeal is a misunderstanding and that he was simply trying to practice for the Olympic torch lighting ceremony.

“I swear to Allah I was not trying to kill anybody,” he pleaded with law enforcement officers in the interrogation room. “I saw on Facebook that the Los Angeles Rams are holding a sweepstakes where one lucky winner will get to light the torch during the Olympics opening ceremony in 2028. All you had to do was submit a video of yourself throwing a football as far as you could. So, I decided to try to stand out from the other contestants by throwing a live torch to show them I wasn’t afraid of fire. But then people in the park started yelling at me, and the whole thing got out of hand.”

Body camera footage released by the Boulder County Police Department showed Soliman waving an unlit Molotov cocktail with his shirt off while screaming at officers and bystanders.

Despite his seemingly aggressive demeanor, audio experts released a transcript of his tirade, which seems to show that he was, in fact, not ranting about Israel or the war in Gaza but simply expressing his extreme passion for the upcoming sporting event and his desire to see Palestinian athletes take the competition by storm.

At press time, Soliman was reportedly seen practicing javelin throwing in the Boulder County Jail yard with a makeshift javelin he whittled from a bed rod.