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AP: U.S. Teen Runs Off to Iraq by Himself
Associated Press ^
| 12/29/05
| JASON STRAZIUSO
Posted on 12/29/2005 2:07:32 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9
This is a trip every J school student should make. Sort of thin the herd at the same time. What everyone failed to note is, he did not return to the same place or use the same route again. Also the Prodigal son returns so there was some relief.
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:05:21 PM PST
by
Domangart
(editor and publisher)
To: proudofthesouth
Wow. 35 is a pretty sweet retirement age.
62
posted on
12/29/2005 3:08:35 PM PST
by
keithtoo
(Leftists/Democrats - Traitors, Haters and Vacillators)
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To: presidio9
ummmmp ahhh, how was a 16 year old able to travel to a foreign country - let along that region - without verified, signed legal docs from parents?
My 16 year old niece had a terrible time getting into Canada, even tho she had signed parental slip, an older sister with her and being met by my son-in-law, a US Navy pilot on 'loan' to RCAF in Nova Scotia. They were going to send her back on ferry to US alone!
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:18:19 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
To: Blood of Tyrants; Alien Gunfighter
When I said Dumb-a$$ I said it having raised 3 boys....I just shook my head because what 16 yo kids do rarely surprises me anymore....He really wasn't doing anything wrong and I find him pretty creative and what a story to tell the grand children!!!!
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:24:57 PM PST
by
Kimmers
To: Central Scrutiniser
immersion journalism Is that the same thing as "Be the ball?"
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:28:54 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: maine-iac7
how was a 16 year old able to travel to a foreign country - let along that region - without verified, signed legal docs from parents?Is there a 16 year old in this country without documents proving that he or she is at least 18? Maybe 21?
I sure do wonder where he got his passport, though. Fake passports are a big issue these days.
To: presidio9
"He thinks he can be an ambassador for democracy around the world. It's admirable but also agony for a parent," Atiya said."
Sorry mom, but one that does something this stupid no matter what his age ends up with his name on his work-shirt. "Hutzpah" ain't worth a sh** without some brains to go along with it.
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:30:39 PM PST
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: presidio9
I'll bet his hero is Johnny Lindh.
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posted on
12/29/2005 3:39:03 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Happy Hanukkah FReepers!)
To: presidio9
Wow! He'll go far if he manages to stay alive... :)
To: presidio9
Now that takes me back! Well done to this kid. When I was 18 (a wee bit older than this one) - I took myself off for a years adventure and found myself working on the Southern Lebanese border and on my second night got to watch an incoming Hezbollah Katysha rocket. A few months later I got myself arrested in Jordan by the police after a row with a taxi driver over an inflated fee. In the rest of my life, in all the years since, in all the many (safer!) countries I have travelled too I don't think I have picked up as many unique stories as I did on that one mad trip. When you're a young kid you think you're immortal and it'll never happen to you. If you get away with it you get some great tales to tell!
(still when it goes wrong like that deluded 23 year old Brit in Gaza today I don't suppose the tales are quite as good)
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:03:53 PM PST
by
Brit_Guy
To: blu
"Does your mommy know where you are?"
Rollin on the floor laughing my arse off!
Well said!!! LOL
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:16:07 PM PST
by
Danae
(Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
To: ArrogantBustard
God rides with fools and children.
To: McGavin999
"LOL, I know this was dangerous, but this kid has some real guts and I'd be willing to bet he's doing to have quite an impact on the world."
If he lives long enough to graduate from high school, you mean? I admire his courage, but... another freaking teenage darwin-award-wannabe. If he learns some discretion to go with his guts, he'll be what you said, otherwise, he's roadkill.
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:21:14 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Central Scrutiniser
"Cool stuff. If he really wanted a dangerous trip, he could have just wandered around Compton for a few days."
More like hours. I haven't been there in something over 30 years, but I hear it hasn't improved much since then...
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:25:50 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: presidio9
"In one day I probably spent like $250 on taxis," he said. "And they're so evil too, because they ripped me off, and when I wouldn't pay the ripped-off price they started threatening me. It was bad." I guess Hassan has never been to NYC.
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:25:58 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Liberalism cannot survive in a free and open society.)
To: presidio9
"This place is incredibly dangerous to individual private American citizens, especially minors, and all of us, especially the military, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure this youth's safety, even if he doesn't acknowledge it or even understand it," Oh, BS. That is pure anti-freedom-fighter propaganda. The Geneva Convention protects noncombatants/civilians...
...CBS just told me so, while condemning the IAF for causing sonic booms that "terrify" peaceful Palestinians.
Thank the Good Lord that Farris was at least as lucky as Farris Buehler was on his 'day off', and seems to have drawn the correct conclusions.
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:29:53 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: presidio9
Because we can't have a teenager walking around the "dangerous country" we have been reporting for two years about.
>>>The AP quickly called the U.S. embassy.
To: Blood of Tyrants
We were all dumbasses at 16. He was just dumber and luckier than most.And much better-heeled than myself or any of my friends were at 16.
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:31:58 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
"Whatever happened to running off and joining the circus?"
John Wayne Gacy kind of put a damper on being around clowns.
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posted on
12/29/2005 4:34:54 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Green bean casserole is a culinary curse upon mankind.)
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