Posted on 09/17/2015 1:10:54 PM PDT by LSUfan
The latest outrage being used to promote the false narrative about unfair treatment of Muslims is the teenager, Ahmed Mohamed, in Irving Texas arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. If you just skimmed the surface and saw the picture of the skinny nerd in the NASA t-shirt in handcuffs it would be easy to see a problem.
And there is one, but its not discrimination against a Muslim kid that wouldnt have happened to a non-Muslim. Its nanny state, zero tolerance policies that take away the ability to apply common sense to complicated situations. In this case, whether or not to put cuffs on a 14 year old when he brings something to school that causes questions to be asked..
But as far as the other question, was the clock device he brought to school a legitimate cause for concern, the answer is an unequivocal yes. I have built and taught classes on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and the clock he brought to school is a dead ringer for the trigger used on many of these homemade bombs.
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Is that a real photo of him talking in a classroom? What a dick this guy is, monitor speakers by his feet like he’s a rockstar? What? And he’s talking to kids but he needs teleprompters?
Kids get expelled for drawing pictures of guns. Obviously no ammo.
bombs don't beep or tick or have big bright red user interfaces.
They do in the movies, thats where many people get their information.
It’s a real picture and a real classroom. But the fifth graders had been kicked out and replaced with stupid people. Reporters. So he could give some “off the cuff” remarks about education while he was at the school visiting the kiddies.
unreal, what a fraud this guy is. This is why I love Trump, he will not give a damn where he is or who he is talking to, he will give a speech right in the street no cue cards, no teleprompters, no speakers and will say exactly what is on his mind and he won’t give a damn who it offends. I told other freepers about this, but I grew up in New york city and got a part time job once in the early 1980s on one of his construction projects cleaning up. I was 16 years old and Donald and his dad walked up to me and asked me how I was doing, what my name was, asked me about my family, asked me where my parents were from and when I told them my mom was from Scotland it was WHOA! a game changer, his mother was from Scotland as well. DONALD TRUMP went and got ME coffee and an egg sandwich, asked me if I needed anything else! It was February at the time and he asked me if I was cold, this is a guy who is for real I don’t give a damn if people can’t take his street talk, and incredibly he got back to me on Twitter last month after I messaged him, he remembered me, and even remembered the cheap coat I was wearing. This guy HAS TO WIN, he is a Godsend to this nation. I truly believe he is running to save this nation and doesn’t give a damn if he destroys himself in the process.
Great post!
Those are three photos of one device.
The Casio F-91W is said to be popular in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Yes.
Not much difference between a clock and a bomb trigger.
Im not the only one too
0bama is possibly the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind. But that’s just my opinion.
Thanks for the personal story of your encounters with Donald Trump. It was interesting and makes a difference in my thinking. He is clearly not average in any way.
My guess is time bombs are a minority of bombs, even of terrorist bombs.
Time bombs are more useful for movie plots than for reality. They are unreliable even if they go off at exactly the programmed instant. They require the bomber to forecast the future and be right. Just ask Count von Stauffenberg.
The Tsarnaev brothers used 2.4ghz model car remotes wired to mini Christmas tree lamps which had been broken in such a way as to leave the filaments intact. These they csrefully inserted into the firework propellant which was the main charge.
Then they used the remote controls concealed in their pockets to fire the bombs at the moment of their choosing and at a safe distance. The 2.4ghz remotes they used are quality devices. They respond only to their own controllers, minimizing the possibility of work accidents in an RF-rich environment, such as downtown Boston.
They’re pretty good for harassment, area denial, and peeling assets away to look for more bombs that could be elsewhere being alert.
Or, assassination if you know when someone will be somewhere.
As I said, ask Count von Stauffenberg. He was there, tried that, unsuccessfully, to his terminal detriment less than 24 hours later.
Not all German assassinations have been such fiascos. For instance, consider the murder of Deutsche Bank president Alfred Herrhausen in 1989, ostensibly by the Red Army Faction, but probably by Stasi (or maybe it was team effort).
The assassins positioned an EFP in a bicycle saddle bag pointed at the road their target would be taking to work. They rigged an infrared beam detector the appropriate partial car length ahead of where the target would be sitting at the instant his limo broke the beam. The saddle bag bomb needed to be armed before it would respond to the breaking of the beam.
The arming of the bomb was accomplished by remote control by an observer. Herrhausen left for work at 0830 in a three-car motorcade, consisting of a lead car, Herrhausen's limo, and a trailing car. When the observer saw the lead car pass by, he armed the bomb. The instant Herrhausen's armored Mercedes broke the infrared beam, the bomb detonated, driving two kilos of molten copper through the armor and into the passenger seat. The be-legged Herrhausen died of blood loss before help arrived. His driver, who was ahead of the explosively formed projectile's impact point, survived.
Note that the scheme didn't need any stinkin' Casio watches or Radio Shack Micronta clocks. It needed careful placement of the bomb the correct distance from where the beam would be broken. And it needed an observer to arm it when the next vehicle was the target's.
Hey! All you English teaches out there! If one of your kids has one of these in his backpack, you might want to call the principal:
![]() An EFP |
Way back when I taught riot control in my battalion. Included in the course was bomb detection and what to do if a suspect bomb was found. I made a bomb to use as a training aid. It was a box with a clock, battery, old VW horn, two mercury switches and two pressure release switches. No electronics, no computer parts. If the horn sounded it meant the bomb went off.
Very simple construction.
The little sh*t's stunt begins to pay off.
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