Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teen who was arrested on suspicion of bringing a bomb to school (even though police knew his clock wasn't a bomb) finally got his clock back, Dallas Morning News reports. After Mohamed's family hired a legal team to make sure his homemade clock was returned, police gave it back just days before Mohamed leaves for Doha, Qatar, where the Qatari Foundation will pay for his high school and his entire undergraduate education.
Mohamed announced the clock's safe return with a triumphant tweet, which has been favorited almost 5,000 times. Avi Selk, a reporter for Dallas Morning News who met Mohamed's family, posted a picture of the clock's evidence bag, which Irving police clearly labeled, "hoax bomb."
Although he'd expressed a desire to attend MIT and work for NASA (where he probably would've been brilliant), and despite receiving support from President Obama and Mike Honda, the Democratic representative for Silicon Valley, Mohamed has no plans to return to the U.S. after his move. The scholarships are a huge pull, but online attacks and conspiracy theories in the wake of Mohamed's arrest also motivated his family's choice. "There is a fear of all those comments," Ahmed's uncle Aldean Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. "All the crazy things. This is a 14-year-old kid."
