Mon, Dec 17, 2007 - Page 13 News List

Baghdad heavy metal band on the run

With death squads on the prowl for intellectuals, artists and musicians, members of Iraq's only heavy metal band are hiding in Turkey - and they don't want to leave

By Bryan Pearson  /  AFP , BAGHDAD

For now they are kicking their heels, hoping for another gig or perhaps even a tour of Turkey, where heavy metal, unlike in the Middle East, is popular.

"We know nothing about our future or what's going to happen. We don't know anything. We're just living day by day. We are just waiting to see what the UNHCR is going to do," said Latif.

A blog on the band's Web site gives a more gloomy and quaintly ungrammatical prognosis:

"My guessing is we will get send to prison then back to Iraq or mabey straight back to Iraq cuz as you already know that we can't go back to Syria cuz of the visa thing so again the four of us back again lost and broke and without guide our even equepments our place to stay in Turkey."

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