Are Things as They Seem? - Check out Ferris Hasan

Remember the young man of 16 who disappeared from Florida in Dec, 2005, to head for Iraq in search of a story for his journalism class? It looks like his parents did know... And there isn't such a jounalism class... And his father has been arrested for forging US Passports and Military IDs before... And they live in a $4M dollar house... So what's the real story? Read an expose here. Update 03/14/2006: From a cheesel (a commenter on the LGF thread):

#27 cheesel 3/14/2006 09:29AM PST #5, Curt... New Muslim flick--Boy tries to join Hezbollah to fight the infidels: "Ferris Hassan's Day Off".

Thank you, Cinnamon Stillwell and Tom Blumer for doing some real reporting! Thanks to Mudville Gazette for the Open Post!