Hoax Teen

From Yahoo:

"Texas teen arrested for homemade clock to move to Qatar"

 

A 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a possible bomb will be moving with his family to the Middle East so he can attend school there, his family said Tuesday. Ahmed Mohamed's family released a statement saying they had accepted a foundation's offer to pay for his high school and college in Doha, Qatar. He recently visited the country as part of a whirlwind month that included a Monday stop at the White House and an appearance Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.  The statement said the family has been "overwhelmed by the many offers of support" since Ahmed's arrest on Sept. 14 at his school in Irving, a Dallas suburb. The family said it accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development to join its Young Innovators Program. Ahmed, who along with his family will relocate to Qatar, received a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education. Ahmed said he was impressed with the program and thinks he'll "learn a lot and have fun, too." Ahmed took a homemade clock to his high school to show a teacher, but another teacher thought it could be a bomb. The school contacted police, who handcuffed the boy and took him to a detention center. The school suspended him for three days.  A police photo of the device shows a carrying case containing a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display. Police ultimately chose not to charge Ahmed with having a hoax bomb, and the police chief has said there was no evidence the teen meant to cause alarm. His parents later withdrew him from the school. But in recent weeks, the teenager has been traveling the world. Ahmed earlier this week told The Associated Press that he had visited Google and Facebook, along with other companies and institutions. He also visited with the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, which has prompted some criticism because al-Bashir is wanted by 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 U.S. and a former presidential candidate in Sudan who ran opposing al-Bashir.

 

^ There is just something fishy about this whole thing. If you look at the details of the actual case and the history of his family it looks like all of this was planned. I do believe that is was right for the school to be cautious about anything looking like a bomb (as they are supposed to with regards to any weapon.) Ahmed should have known that. He was 14 and if he didn't then his father should have. I think it was a way to get media attention and their 15 minutes of fame and it clearly worked. The main reason I think this is because Ahmed and his family met with Sudan's President, al-Bashir, whom Ahmed's father ran against in elections and then conveniently moved his family to the US where this clock hoax happened. If his father really opposed al-Bashir and his war crime charges then why met with the man and bring your son? It doesn't add up unless it was all staged from the beginning. Now Ahmed and his family are moving back to the Middle East where they will be pampered for "enduring" racial profiling. I wonder what new hoaxes Ahmed and his family will come up with next. Here's one thing Ahmed should have learned from all of this: don't bring anything that looks like a weapon to school and you won't get arrested. ^

 

http://news.yahoo.com/congressman-praises-teen-arrested-over-homemade-clock-142552765.html#