Southeast Missouri State University and the FBI are assuring the area that the campus was never in danger concerning the former Bangladesh student arrested in New York for an attempted bombing of the Federal Reserve. 21-year old Quazi Nafis was arrested Wednesday after a sting operation. Nafis attended Southeast Missouri State University for one semester in the spring of 2012. He was studying cyber security at the campus when he requested he transcripts be sent to a university in Brooklyn. He was on academic probation on arrival and based on first semester grades was not invited back to the University in the fall. President Dobbins tells KZIM-KSIM foreign exchange students are screened by governments before entering the US. Dobbins adds there was no student conduct case file for Nafis. The case is ongoing with the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force. Southeast currently hosts more than 800 foreign exchange students.
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