Background section At the present time the background section cites unspecified interviews with the media according to which Ahmed claimed to take apart a clock and rebuild it inside a pencil case The sentence is taken verbatim from the NPR article However it links to a Dallas News article which says no such thing to a Dallas News interview which also does not contain this statement and mentions a WFAA interview which I ve been unable to find I ve checked four different interviews with Ahmed and he does not explicitly describe it as a rebuilt clock in any of them If such an interview exists and the statement was not an interpolation by NPR it would be nice to have a direct link a quote and a date The problem with the statement is that it provides inadequate background for the rest of the article When the story broke on 9 15 the device was consistently described by the media as a homemade clock or an invention The fact that it was a reassembled commercial clock was mentioned in passing by a WFAA article which quoted Irving police on 9 16 but otherwise mostly ignored It only went viral so to speak when Dawkins waded into the controversy on 9 20 and his comments got picked up by the conservative media Much of the immediate reaction from Obama s tweet and Zuckerberg s invitation to Dawkins lashing out seems inexplicable if the device in question was acknowledged to be a rebuilt commercial clock from day 1 but makes sense if the device was initially assumed by everyone to be a genuine homemade clock