Florida man tried to enlist ISIS to attack colleges that suspended, expelled him – By Tim Stelloh (NBC News) / Nov 25 2019
Court documents say Salman Rashid targeted two deans after he was suspended for sending threatening text messages to a female student.
A Florida man was arrested for trying to enlist ISIS to carry out attacks against the deans of two schools where he’d been suspended or expelled from, authorities said Monday.
Salman Rashid, 23, of North Miami Beach, faces charges of soliciting someone to bomb Miami-Dade and Broward colleges, court documents say.
The documents, filed in United States District Court of Southern Florida, say that Rashid allegedly stalked a fellow student at Miami-Dade College and was suspended last December after he sent her threatening text messages.
In one, Rashid allegedly told her that “the creator” had “decided our destiny and chosen separate paths for us.”
In the “hereafter, will meet once again,” he allegedly wrote. “But things will be a little different :). You will not have excuses, will not be given a choice and will have to come closer to me.”
Earlier this year, Rashid was expelled from Broward College for not telling the school about what had happened at Miami-Dade, the documents say.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation began monitoring Rashid’s Facebook posts in April 2018, after he displayed a “growing hatred for America, non-Muslims” and others, and professed a belief in the “violent overthrow” of the “democratic system,” the documents say.
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The Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College in downtown Miami on Sept. 24, 2015.Angel Valentin / for NBC News
