Posted on 09/18/2015 10:30:50 PM PDT by Ray76
UPDATE: In his own words Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student essentially states he knew taking the device to school was controversial. Listen at 1:26 video: “I closed it with a cable, so… because, I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat so I just used simple cable…. so it won’t look that much suspicious”.
Update#2 – We are not the only people to pick up on the admitted “intent”. Follow THIS LINK – To see exactly how it was engineered and the kids’ story gets even more sketchy.
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Yes!
Geez I hope you retire ..like tomorrow!
You’re gonna be waiting about forty more years. Sorry to disappoint.
You wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked you in your ass!
God may have other plans.
Allow me to correct you for grammar and punctuation: Okay, then, help me out, since I’m obtuse: the teacherscried, “Wolf,”took prudent measures and the police came out andfound that there was no “there” theretook prudent measures.
Hope that helps heaps.
Why is this a national story? Why are you allowing Obama et al. to use this to further the idea that Muslims are discriminated against?
Because the Muslim activists (including Obama) made a big stink about it through the terrorist-aligned group called CAIR, and because the media is a propaganda organ often funded by Islamic interests.
Why are you playing exactly into their hands? Nobody outside the original teacher’s classroom should have ever heard about this ridiculous story. Instead, it’s sparked a national hue and cry, and you can f*cking BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR that this incident will be repeated time and time again by copycats, some just after their fifteen minutes, and others after lawsuit proceeds. WAY TO F***ING GO, GUYS.
I sure hope you are addressing that rant to CAIR and the media propaganda organs masquerading as news.
Because all *I* am doing is responding to, and disassembling, the terrorism- and Islamic-friendly comments I see on a relatively small politics forum.
“A look at the crap in the case shows that it’s the guts of a typical alarm clock, and there’s nothing else evident there.”
To a typical layman, who unlike you has no idea what a real suitcase bomb actually looks like, but knows that in general it is a bunch of wires and circuit-like boards hooked together with a ticking timer and placed inside of a suitcase; to that person it would look like what could be a suitcase bomb.
What I am very curious about is why you are so eager to try to show that you are some kind of expert on suitcase bombs and what they look like. Are you trying to puff up your ego by showing how knowledgeable you are to your fellow Freepers, showing how vastly superior in intellect you are on this subject of bombs.
Or have you made suitcase bombs yourself in the past? Or there is something else in your past that we all should know about when evaluating your somewhat obsessive defense of this kid and his phony clock? Especially as you are aware the kid’s father holds to radical thoughts and actions. What is it that is motivating you here, as what you are saying is just not a particularly normal reaction after seeing the pictures of what it was the kid brought to school, unsolicited and not for any assigned project. In other words, for no known reason at all and most likely at the instigation of his father to make trouble. And he did it a few days after 9/11. His timing was better than the ticking of his suitcase “clock.”
Maybe then this country will wake up and do what must be done.
But I won't hold my breath.
I’m an electrical engineer and computer scientist. Your reaction to a couple of circuit boards in a metal case is different from my reaction to a couple of circuit boards in a metal case.
I am not an expert on suitcase bombs, nor have I ever seen one; however, I can design and generally identify the functions of circuit boards. Nothing in the pictures of what this kid put together looks like anything other than a harmless disassembled alarm clock.
Clearly the teachers who blew the whistle on this kid had never seen a real bomb...and they still haven’t.
I’m not quite sure the guy IS claiming that he is an expert on suitcase bombs. He said he flies with prototypes, which I am assuming are electronic in nature. He says he has no problem flying with them, however, I’m sure his prototypes are looked at closely. If they are not, then that violates standard X-ray security tech protocol (at least in the late 1980’s), which requires that any time two threat markers are present, the luggage gets hand-searched.
I am not an expert on suitcase bombs, however, I have had some exposure to security x-ray technology and procedures.
Bomb:
Hey all you nitwit English teaches out there, if your kid has a gadget resembling the second pic in his backpack, maybe you should call the principal.
Electronics can be repurposed in flight, which is the reason they make you switch on your laptop.
Hate to break it to you, but I fly 300k+ miles a year all over the world, and it’s been years since I’ve been asked to turn on my laptop...
The second one is not a functional bomb, at least from the angle shown. It may have explosive material, but I don’t see any initiator or timer or or fusing, or electronics of any nature. There could be a piezoelectric trigger imbedded inside, but that would be fairly sophisticated technology.
Very well. That procedure has changed.
Last comment: I’m going to retract the claim you are a terrorist enabler. You appear mostly concerned about the publicity and the likely copycats to follow. Those are reasonable concerns.
Hopefully you understand why I feel — with the presence of the threat markers — that this was a prudent response on the part of the school and the police: Responsive, yet measured.
I cannot speak to the response of the media and CAIR, those are two uncontrolled terrorist organizations.
“Clearly the teachers who blew the whistle on this kid had never seen a real bomb...and they still haven’t.”
And I hope they never will. Not a real suitcase bomb, or another fake one like they were confronted with. I would suggest that you climb down off of your high horse here about a punk kid who is trying to game the system, along with his father plotting in the background. This was done intentionally, regardless of whether anyone could figure out if the suitcase bomb was real or just made to look like one to the average Joe.
You obviously think you are vastly superior to the average Joe, and want to show off your knowledge here on FR. What you don’t appear to realize, or perhaps are starting to figure out, is that what you are saying is not really appreciated. In particular, as you keep posting the same baloney over and over again on this thread.
Are those potatoes really hunks of C4 disguised as potatoes, ready to go off when the alarm sounds?
Or are those potatoes just lumps of disguised Play-Doh designed to scarehoax English teachers?
Or is that a potato-powered watch?
Its clear the kid wanted this clock to look suspicious, thats why he put it inside a case. Plus he didn't build a clock, he simply disassembled an old clock and put it inside the case. Why? To create a hoax
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