Here's the 'Bomb' Clock That Got 14 Year Old Student Ahmed Mohammed Arrested

Subsequent invitation received by the 14 year old inventor to the White House, MIT, Google, Facebook and half the other firms Silicon Valley suggest that at least in some parts of the US, knowledge is triumphing over fear and bigotry. JL

Marcus Wohlsen reports in Wired:

Police acknowledge Ahmed never claimed the device was anything but a clock: they arrested him anyway on suspicion of making a “hoax bomb.”
Police in Irving, Texas, released this photo of the homemade clock 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought to his high school. Though police acknowledge Ahmed never claimed the device was anything but a clock, they arrested him anyway on suspicion of making a “hoax bomb.” Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said today the department wouldn’t be filing charges.