James Doogue a writer I admire, posted this onto Facebook 12 hrs ago but I’ve only just read it and I QUOTE:
Why the hell would you want to make a clock in a briefcase anyway? I would have panicked when I saw this. I don’t believe a 14 year old Muslim boy could be so naive that he couldn’t see that it might look like a bomb. I’m not saying he was making a bomb, but I don’t think it was an accident it looked the way it did. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a bit of a gag gone wrong. But the PC media are too busy being up-in-arms about possible racial profiling. I would love to see what happened to this kid if that ‘clock’ had gone through airport security. I reckon it is highly unlikely he wouldn’t have been charged with something.
The boy, Ahmed already knew it was dodgy as he admitted that when he had shown his engineering teacher, the engineering teacher had congratulated him but advised him “not to show any other teachers”.
