The Bangladeshi national who is being held by federal agents for plotting a terrorist attack has generated fear among the Southeast Missouri State University community where he was a student for one semester.
Hence, to commit to the students of safety and security, University President Ken Dobbins himself addressed the public through a news conference and also released the letter he sent to the university community to reassure that none of them is under threat.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in Manhattan Wednesday after he tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City by what he thought was a live bomb, but was actually a dummy provided undercover federal agents.
The university says he was indeed a student at the university but only during the 2012 spring semester. He was studying cyber security and was taking 12 hours of credit classes.
According to the university letter sent to the community, Nafis requested to transfer his records to a New York School and the university did the same.
"The student did not enroll at Southeast for the Summer or Fall 2012; consequently, the individual is not a student at Southeast Missouri State University," the statement reads.
Dobbins' also stated that he has personally spoken to federal agents saying 'there is no reason to be concerned about safety issues on the Southeast campus' and the campus was never a target of the attack.
Many of students who knew Nafis during his brief time at SEMO, say they cannot believe that Nafis could do plot a terrorist attack. An acquaintance who spoke to Southern Missourian recalled Nafis claiming true Muslims never indulge in violence.
