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As I pointed out earlier (and no one was willing to address) what if his motives had been a trial run? What would have happened if he had admitted to that?
Nothing would have happened because of the incompetence of the police.
From the article one only has to ask, why did he do this:
I refer back again to this with Ahmed. He explains that he closed up the box with a piece of cord because he didn’t want it to look suspicious. I’m curious, why would “looking suspicious” have even crossed his mind before this whole event unfolded, if he was truly showing off a hobby project, something so innocuous as an alarm clock. Why did he choose a pencil box, one that looks like a miniature briefcase no less, as an enclosure for a clock? It’s awful hard to see the clock with the case closed. On the other hand, with the case open, it’s awful dangerous to have an exposed power transformer sitting near the snooze button (unless, perhaps his invention was to stop serial-snooze-button pressers by giving them a dangerous electrical shock!)
From the article one only has to ask, why did he do this:
I refer back again to this with Ahmed. He explains that he closed up the box with a piece of cord because he didn’t want it to look suspicious. I’m curious, why would “looking suspicious” have even crossed his mind before this whole event unfolded, if he was truly showing off a hobby project, something so innocuous as an alarm clock. Why did he choose a pencil box, one that looks like a miniature briefcase no less, as an enclosure for a clock? It’s awful hard to see the clock with the case closed. On the other hand, with the case open, it’s awful dangerous to have an exposed power transformer sitting near the snooze button (unless, perhaps his invention was to stop serial-snooze-button pressers by giving them a dangerous electrical shock!)
I havent argued that he might not have been trying to pull one. I just wish people would discuss what I have argued.
Your own linked articles says: "The device initially tested negative for traces of explosives"... - and you call it an explosive device, because...? I ma going to go out on a limb and say that for something to qualify as an "explosive device", part of it should be capable of going boom.
No it is not. No explosives to speak of. If this is the Yemen printer device it was in or next to a toner cartridge filled with a plastic explosive. There may be a detonator on the PWB...
Your own linked articles says: "The device initially tested negative for traces of explosives"... - and you call it an explosive device, because...? I ma going to go out on a limb and say that for something to qualify as an "explosive device", part of it should be capable of going boom.
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