“If I had a bomb-building son..”
According to the article that’s linked to in the posted article, sweet young Ahmed dismantled an existing clock and reassembled it inside a pencil case, with the whole device looking like a small briefcase. Well, duh, he created a device that looked like a duck and waddled like a duck, and the school authorities and cops thought it was a duck!!! He wasn’t being creative building a digital clock, he was deliberately building a dummy bomb.