FRESH from his unauthorised odyssey to Iraq, American teen Farris Hassan had a steak dinner and a night of seclusion, but he won't be going out with friends just yet, his mother said yesterday.

MAYBE it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert.

A 16-year-old from Florida who travelled to Iraq on his own without telling his parents has left the country and is on his way home.