ericlee
01-22-2010, 05:37 PM
Being that you're the one who posted the documentary called Heavy Metal in Baghdad, I'll give you props. I just stumbled on this, yeah, I'm a little late but I just now found this out.
America
After applying for asylum the United States government granted them refugee status, which allows them to apply for green cards after one year. Tony, Faisal, and Firas came first. Tony went to Michigan to handle some family business and started living there. Faisal and Firas settled into their new lives in New Jersey. A humanitarian relief and refugee resettlement agency, International Rescue Committee, placed them in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Then in the early morning hours of January 30th 2009 Marwan arrived. On their second day in America they were able to watch Metallica at the Prudential Center in Newark. Each band member met the group backstage and James Hetfield, Metallica’s lead singer, presented them with one of his guitars, a black ESP, after signing it “Welcome to America”. The Metallica concert was only their second ever stadium concert; the first being the band Testament, which they saw a few months earlier in Turkey.
They're playing at the Scion Rock Fest (http://www.scion.com/pub-share/rock/images/flier.jpg) in Ohio this year.
That's great, I'm glad the journalists followed through and helped them get to the states because they really put them out there for making that whole documentary.
Edit: Music video Garden of Stones. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxt3SiGvTg)
America
After applying for asylum the United States government granted them refugee status, which allows them to apply for green cards after one year. Tony, Faisal, and Firas came first. Tony went to Michigan to handle some family business and started living there. Faisal and Firas settled into their new lives in New Jersey. A humanitarian relief and refugee resettlement agency, International Rescue Committee, placed them in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Then in the early morning hours of January 30th 2009 Marwan arrived. On their second day in America they were able to watch Metallica at the Prudential Center in Newark. Each band member met the group backstage and James Hetfield, Metallica’s lead singer, presented them with one of his guitars, a black ESP, after signing it “Welcome to America”. The Metallica concert was only their second ever stadium concert; the first being the band Testament, which they saw a few months earlier in Turkey.
They're playing at the Scion Rock Fest (http://www.scion.com/pub-share/rock/images/flier.jpg) in Ohio this year.
That's great, I'm glad the journalists followed through and helped them get to the states because they really put them out there for making that whole documentary.
Edit: Music video Garden of Stones. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxt3SiGvTg)