Re: US boy's answer to a school essay on Iraq: take a trip to Baghdad

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US boy's answer to a school essay on Iraq: take a trip to Baghdad

16-year-old spends two days in war-torn city before realising he is in
danger

Richard Luscombe, Fort Lauderdale and Oliver Burkeman
Saturday December 31, 2005
The Guardian

Most teenagers would have settled for a visit to the local museum. But
Farris Hassan had greater plans for his latest school trip - running
away to Baghdad for a first-hand look at one of the world's most
dangerous cities.

The 16-year-old from Florida secretly flew to the Middle East to help
research a school project about the conflict in Iraq. With only an
Arabic phrasebook to guide him, he spent two days alone in Baghdad.

He said he wanted "to go the extra mile, or rather a few thousand
miles" to be able to write his essay with authority.
MORE at:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schoolsworldwide/story/0,14062,1675894,00.html
zadoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well there were a few other young men that did much the same thing. One of them rose to prominence and fortune. Sir Winston Churchill.

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Censorship and Gun Control are the political equivalent of binding and
gagging a victim before raping and mugging them.

Such acts are carried out by the same thugs, one with a law degree from
a state pen, the other a law degree from a university for the same sick
perverted purposes which are to remove you from your property, liberty
and dignity, and bend you to will of others.
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