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Briefcase Clock Maker UPDATE: Kid admits forethought – knew it was going to be “suspicious”
Conservative Treehouse ^ | Sep 18, 2015 | Sundance

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: cair; education; islam; texas; texasmoslemclock
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To: Lazamataz
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.

All true.

But be thankful you were not Alfred Herrhausen. Nor were you one of the US servicemen killed by this type of bomb in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oh, and by the way, timers have nothing to do with it. This type of bomb is very accurate. You don't use timers with it. You need to set it off exactly when the target is in the right spot. Timers are for movies and English teachers. Timers build drama, something English teachers think they know about.

The point is, the folks in Irving got played. They allowed themselves to be gulled into overreacting. Zero is the beneficiary.

121 posted on 09/19/2015 2:37:42 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Better call the cops! If that thing blows, there will be French fries everywhere!


122 posted on 09/19/2015 2:52:30 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: flaglady47

Should I take my comments to a more tech-savvy forum, and leave the hyperventilation and mindless hysteria to you?


123 posted on 09/19/2015 2:54:58 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Lazamataz

Thank you, and yes, I understand your sentiment. I also dislike CAIR and their friends.


124 posted on 09/19/2015 3:29:32 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

((Clearly the teachers who blew the whistle on this kid had never seen a real bomb...and they still haven’t.))

And you have? Please explain how a person such as yourself happen to see the internals of a suitcase enclosed explosive devise. When you finish that please tell us all that would be needed to convert the teens device from a clock to an explosive device. My son in-law who has disabled and destroyed well over 100 IED’s in both Iraq and Afghanistan is awaiting your answer.


125 posted on 09/19/2015 3:43:58 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: dinodino

If it has a clock chip and alarm function, then that is the possible “detonator”. If the demonstrator alarm panel has remote RF capability, then the options increase a lot.

The presence of the transformer and power cord really means nothing — just convenience. Just go upstream past where the incoming AC gets rectified to DC and that’s where you put in the leads to a battery pack.

This isn’t STEM curiosity or innocence. It was planned for a campaign/lawsuit.


126 posted on 09/19/2015 3:46:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Dusty Road

I believe I made it clear in a previous post that I had not. Why don’t you ask your son-in-law if he thinks that the thing the kid brought to school is an IED? Please post back with his answer.


127 posted on 09/19/2015 3:47:30 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Gaffer

I understand that. However, take a look at it: it’s the guts of a cheap digital clock, with no apparent modifications. It doesn’t even have the 9v backup battery connected; i.e., it can only operate when plugged into the wall.

There is nothing resembling a blasting cap or detonator, and nothing resembling an explosive. No stray wires leading anywhere suspicious. It looks like what it turned out to be: the guts of a digital clock stuck into a case.


128 posted on 09/19/2015 3:49:19 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Lazamataz

(((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.)))

And the small suitcase device could be used to set it off. That one looks to be an Iranian shape charged IED, small but nasty.


129 posted on 09/19/2015 3:50:17 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: dinodino

The point is the swap over to battery power is near trivial, and as I said most clock chips have alarm functions built in that could be used for most any kind of event trigger (buzzer, bell, etc. after proper conditioning).

When you’re learning or in training/practicing, you don’t do it with explosives installed.

There is just too much crap there for “just a clock.” For it to be “just a digital clock” it would have to be the technology like back when I was working on electronic equipment in the 70s.


130 posted on 09/19/2015 3:54:16 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cynwoody

Second Pic.....I’ll bet that particular EFP ingot was forged in Iran. :0)


131 posted on 09/19/2015 3:55:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: dinodino

Answer my question please.


132 posted on 09/19/2015 3:56:27 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Gaffer

I said the same, nasty little shaped charge explosive.


133 posted on 09/19/2015 4:01:47 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: dinodino

(((There is nothing resembling a blasting cap or detonator, and nothing resembling an explosive. No stray wires leading anywhere suspicious. It looks like what it turned out to be: the guts of a digital clock stuck into a case.)))

Well you got close to answering my question. So the only thing missing is the explosive and the detonator. Now which wire’s could be used to set off the detonator?


134 posted on 09/19/2015 4:11:43 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Gaffer

Gaffer, it IS a 1970s clock. It’s a late 1970s or early 1980s Micronta (Radio Shack) alarm clock!


135 posted on 09/19/2015 4:13:37 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Dusty Road

I think the answer you want is that you’d use the leads to the piezo buzzer; however, I seriously doubt that you could drive it directly. If it were me, I would use them to switch a higher voltage to trigger the detonator.


136 posted on 09/19/2015 4:15:32 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Other reports said it was a Honeywell Alarm demonstrator kit.


137 posted on 09/19/2015 4:17:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
A blogger has already identified the model of clock used by Ahmed:

Reverse-engineering Ahmed Mohamed's Clock and Ourselves


138 posted on 09/19/2015 4:20:19 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: max americana

election season sure does bring out the gutter religion defenders and concern trolls on FR. Eventually things return to normal and they disappear


139 posted on 09/19/2015 4:20:46 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Gaffer

The Honeywell alarm demonstrator thing is pictured in that stupid meme that is going around. I already pointed out earlier in the thread when someone posted that pic that it was not a suitcase bomb, it was a Honeywell sales demo.


140 posted on 09/19/2015 4:21:22 AM PDT by dinodino
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