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16-year-old studies journalism, then runs away to Iraq alone
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, December 29, 2005 4:53 PM
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Farris Hassan, a 16-year-old high school student from Florida, took a class on "immersion journalism" and was inspired to run away to Baghdad without telling his parents.
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