Fort Lauderdale teen runs off to Iraq to see 'struggle between good ...

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1229iraqteen,0,994972.story?page=1&coll=sfla-home-headlines

Fort Lauderdale teen runs off to Iraq to see 'struggle between good and evil'

By Jason Straziuso
The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. Or when he drew a crowd at a Baghdad food stand after using an Arabic phrase book to order. Or the moment a Kuwaiti cab driver almost punched him in the face when he balked at the $100 fare.

But at some point, Farris Hassan, a 16-year-old from Fort Lauderdale, realized that traveling to Iraq by himself was not the safest thing he could have done with his Christmas vacation.

And he didn't even tell his parents.

Hassan's dangerous adventure winds down with the 101st Airborne delivering the Fort Lauderdale teen to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which had been on the lookout for him and promises to see him back to the United States this weekend.

read the whole story if you can, it's pretty wild stuff...