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


zadoc wrote:
> 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

A stupid boy with romantic dreams about the motherland.

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