Does it have a digital LED display in front?
If they were so concerned it was a bomb, they would have evacuated the school and sent in the Bomb Ordinance team. That proves the school was absolutely stupid.
This outrage is actually highlighting the problem. A real American would have a sense of humor and get a good laugh about the chaos their science project created.
Looks like a terrorist DRY RUN for a bomb to me.
He removed the innards from an alarm clock and put them inside a pencil box. For what reason? People act like he’s some kind of genius because he knows how to solder.
It looks like a bomb timer that he built from an existing clock. It’s a set up.
If somebody is going to spend that much time making a clock for fun then it better have a speaker that randomly says “FASTER!”
If a muslim wants a trip to the White House, then try dressing up as a terrorist and sneak into a dark theater.
Another way to get discriminated against is show up at the airport with lots of box cutters.
That's because it is a clock... similar to the Acurite Intelli-time Model 13003 large LED-display clock. The small green circuit board is similar to PCB layout (Figure 2) in ElecCircuit's Cheap Digital time clock.
The clock was crudely disassembled and the parts put into a small Vaultz pencil case, shaped like a briefcase. The power transformer is laying loose on its side with AC contacts exposed (hazard!). The battery clip on the left is for a 9V battery backup of the time when the power cord is unplugged. And with the display inside the case, the clock would be useless unless the case were opened exposing hazardous AC voltage connections to the transformer.
Ahmen (or Ahmed) then took the device to school and pulsed the system in a quick and dirty effort to use a suspicious and electronic-looking thing with wires showing to provoke official school reaction, which then would be reported and denounced by pro-islamist groups, desensitizing and weakening school profiling against islamoterrorism. According to fifth-column media reports, the kid plugged it in during English class, a bizarre move that would alert any responsible teacher.
This kid and his father should be severely interrogated to extract some real answers.