Baghdad Boy's back - and no longer a Young republican

[Opusnone]

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/Issues/2006-10-05/news/feature.html

"Nearly a year after Hassan briefly became an international media figure for making his clandestine Christmas-break voyage to Baghdad, back at home, he gets a ribbing by those at his elite preparatory school who wonder when he'll escape on another wild ride.

Fact is, he already has.

Six months after his Iraq gambit, Hassan used his summer vacation to make several more top-secret trips, this time inside the United States.

On July 3, he flew to Denver and hitchhiked from Steamboat Springs to attend the Rainbow Gathering in Routt National Forest. For five days, he immersed himself in the annual itinerant tent city of latter-day hippies. Then Hassan hitchhiked back to the city, where he befriended an alcoholic and a prostitute and checked himself into the Denver Rescue Mission posing as a penniless drifter. Then he flew to Dearborn, Michigan, home of America's largest mosque, and for two weeks, he assumed the identity of a Jew, hoping to find out whether Muslims there harbored anti-Semitic views. In Detroit, he spent two nights wandering the streets and five more in the Salvation Army's homeless shelter on skid row. And he's got videos."

[uppityperson]

1. I hope his bravado keeps his naive self safe. Interesting young man.

[silverweb]

2. An interesting young man.

Maybe we're looking at a future star investigative journalist.

[Opusnone]

3. Or another misanthropic rich kid asshole...

Who answers to no one.

[silverweb]

5. I'd say that remains to be seen.

n/t

[zbdent]

4. He should be welcomed

into the arms of the armed forces ... seems healthy enought to get to Iraq on his own, why not into the military ???