If you wear the Casio F-91W watch, a cheap, widely available Casio watch, the US Government thinks you might be a terrorist. Seriously! It's been known for quite a while now too. There's a whole list of Guantanomo Bay detainees who wore the watch, an old Washington Post article that said terrorists can use the watch to create time bombs and leaked Wikileaks documents linking the watch to al-Qaeda:
The possession of a Casio F-91W model watch and the silver-color
version of this model, the A159W, is an indicator of al-Qaeda training
in the manufacture of IEDs. The Casio was known to be given to the
students at al-Qaeda bomb-making training courses in Afghanistan, at
which the students received instruction in the preparation of timing
devices using the watch.
I'm typically not one to judge the US military strategy or intelligence's intelligence but the F-91W is an
incredibly common
watch that many people have worn over the years. It's like saying
drinking Coke, wearing Nikes or sniffling into Kleenexes is a sign of
being a terrorist. Come on. We have to have better identifiers and
reasons than a freaking 10 dollar watch.
Source : http://gizmodo.com
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