Remember Bahgad Boy? The FBI arrested his dad for terrorism 20 years ago

[RagingInMiami]

The media pined for Baghdad Boy last Tuesday night. Six satellite television trucks jammed the teen's usually quiet street near Las Olas on the Intracoastal. About 40 reporters and crew members mulled about the front yard of his mother's mansion with the TV lights on and the microphones ready.

What would he say? How would Farris Hassan, the 16-year-old Pine Crest student who had made a dangerous sojourn to Iraq over the holidays, explain himself? He'd already made headlines from Pascagoula to Pakistan. Would this be Baghdad Boy's first news conference?
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We all know now that Farris is a spoiled rich kid, but that excuse is ridiculous. And it gets even more unbelievable when you consider that Dr. Hassan was suspected by the federal government of conspiring to commit terrorism 20 years ago. Didn't hear about that one? Probably because it hasn't been reported, at least not in all its weird glory. You see, the FBI arrested Dr. Hassan back in 1985 after he tried to manufacture thousands of false Iraqi passports and military identification cards. The doctor's capture happened in Fort Lauderdale, but the covert web of Hassan's cohorts stretched across the world. Also arrested were two of Hassan's brothers, Nouri and Ali, and a "pro-Khomeini" activist named Salah Jawad Schubber.

At the time, the ayatollah's country was at war with Saddam Hussein, whom Hassan apparently had good reason to hate. He has claimed that a brother was murdered by the imprisoned dictator and that he was involved in a resistance movement against Saddam when he was Farris' age.

http://www.newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2006-01-12/news/norman.html

[havocmom]

1. Was dear ol dad a Chalabi pal? Hated Saddam. False passports

Mighty interesting.

[AzDar]

2. curiouser and curiouser...... n/t

[txindy]

3. But the son is just an ordinary, average kid with no agenda.

Move along, now.

[High Plains]

4. Alright, I'll bite. What is the son up to other than being a spoiled

brat?

[txindy]

5. We don't know very much

Other than he was mysteriously supplied with travel 'papers' by his father (who now seems to have supplied papers to quite a few questionable souls in the past) and he belongs to the Young Repubs club at his school. He went to Iraq to see "Freedom On the March" and democracy in action. :eyes: Oh, and he speaks no Arabic, yet somehow made it from Kuwait to Baghdad. In a taxi.

But, really, he's just a scamp trying to impress his friends with a good grade on a school report. So, keep moving. Nothing to see here.