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Perhaps the most unusual visit Ahmed has made has been to Sudan, to meet with radical Islamic dictator Omar al-Bashir.

Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes for atrocities linked to the Darfur fighting.

Ahmed's father is a Sudanese immigrant to the United States and a former presidential candidate in Sudan who ran opposing al-Bashir.

Beiruty wrote:

philip964 wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html

One of those "win win" stories. The clock boy and his whole family are leaving Texas and moving to Qatar.

And so many here still think it was a dry run of some sort, a show off or media blitz stunt. In Qatar he would be taken care of himself and his family too. Come back in 20 yrs and the boy will have a PhD in Engineering form USA or UK.

Topbuilder wrote:

Taypo wrote:Oh, I'm under no illusions that he's anything but the child of an instigator. At 14, he's already learned how to play the race card and get what he wants.

My anger is directed at the media and the people who continue to insist he was just trying to build a clock.

I read this thread after some details came out. I had the benefit of knowing more than the posters knew when they made early comments. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed at how many people nowadays make a full rush to judgment before any facts are out.
The following are words that I never thought I would utter - I agree with Bill Maher on this subject.

K.Mooneyham wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I have to admit that I have not read all 13 pages of posts in this thread, so someone may have already posted my thoughts.

A lot more information has come out about this "clock" and I'm starting to think there could well be more to it than a kid making a clock. Why make it in a suitcase? There is some talk that he didn't make it at all; that it was a store-bought clock and he simply removed the cover and put it in a briefcase.

This could be as innocent as most people believed initially, or it could be a practice run for something else. The kid's father makes it even more suspicious.

Chas.

I do not trust nor believe them. Like Chas., I suspect it was a dry run leading ultimately to the mini-muslim's trip to paradise.

As many other recent veterans on this forum can attest, we received recurring training on many subjects. One of those subjects included a presentation called "Anti-Terrorism Level I". Because of that training, it led me to believe that this very likely could have been a probe to test local responses of the school and the police. The intention may be to simply gather information on what would happen in an area perhaps considered "hostile" to terrorist organizations/objectives.

It appears, the “clock” Mohamed brought to school this week was not the first of his circuit boards to look ominously like an improvised explosive device trigger. In fact, a photograph of one circulated by the Dallas Morning News was virtually indistinguishable from a circuit board used in a commercially available device used to train law enforcement and military personnel regarding how to identify IEDs.