What are Molotov cocktails, the weapon of war allegedly used by accused Boulder terror suspect?

Witnesses indicated that the fishy arrested successful transportation with the Sunday onslaught successful Boulder, Colorado, utilized a makeshift flamethrower and tossed an incendiary device, according to the city and the FBI. 

Press releases besides noted that the suspect was heard yelling "Free Palestine," during the attack.

Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said during a Sunday press conference that "a antheral was throwing Molotov cocktails and utilizing different devices to wounded people."

But what are Molotov cocktails? 

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"The word typically refers to a solid vessel filled with flammable fluid and capped with a lit cloth fuse oregon wick soaked successful alcohol. When thrown against a hard surface, the vessel breaks causing the wick to ignite the cocktail’s liquid arsenic good arsenic its vaporized fuel," West Point Professor Sean Watts explained successful a 2022 portion disposable connected lieber.westpoint.edu.

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Earlier this year, immoderate U.S. soldiers learned astir making Molotov cocktails from Estonian soldiers, and past hurled them into a wall, creating fiery explosions.

Video footage shows what happens erstwhile the devices are used.

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None of the victims of the Colorado onslaught person passed away, the Boulder Police Department noted successful a station connected X.