Bis heute haben wir 12.000 Dollar gesammelt und mit diesem Geld war es der Band möglich, sich Tickets zu kaufen und mit dem Bargeld in der Tasche aus Syrien zu flüchten. Jetzt befinden sie sich in Istanbul, Türkei und leben von dem Geld, was ihr gespendet habt. Am 10. Oktober konnten sie flüchten, an jenem Tag wo ihre Visa abgelaufen wäre und eine Woche bevor die syrische Regierung offiziell angekündigt hat, dass sie die 1.5 Millionen Iraker in Syrien in den Irak zurück schicken müssen.

Die Band wollte sich persönlich bei Euch bedanken und euch gleichzeitig ein Update über die Herausforderungen geben, die sich ihnen in Istanbul stellen. Die Nachricht die uns heute erreicht hat, befindet sich unten.

Danke noch einmal und hört nicht auf, über die Band und ihre Geschichte zu reden. Ihr könnt jederzeit ein Update über die Entwicklungen auf http://www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com finden.

Dear friends and hard core mother fuckers ACRASSICAUDA salute you:

Sorry for not writing any thing about our trip to Turkey but just so you know we are now in Istanbul, Turkey, now.

We made it there and it’s been almost 2 weeks for us here, all of us got here after long trip starting from the Syrian International airport then to Jordan (I don’t know why the hell for)..?? and then to Istanbul airport in turkey. First I want to thank WHO EVER HELPED US TO MAKE THIS TRIP POSSIBAL, we thank you for that, each and every one of you we want to thank personally for your help it means a lot to us. We had this crazy idea of repaying you guys if we ever made it out there (who knows)…

Second thing I want to talk about is how we got here, you won’t fucking believe it dudes we went twice to the Syrian airport WHY…? Cuz the first time 2 of us got there flight tickets cancelled and got kicked out of the airport, 1st reason was for misspelling a name and 2nd one was cuz of the picture in the passport looked fishy, leaving the other 2 guys to wonder if we should go back with out the other 2 members but finally we made our mind to go all together or TO HELL WITH IT. I remember the guy who is in charge telling us when we decided not to go the 2 of us in the last minute that he hold us the responsibility if any thing happened to the plane and he said it like he was threatening us ….finally we worked on the 2 guys passports and fixed it (cost 700$) we made it to through to turkey at the 10 of October.

Everything here is weird kinda nobody speaks English or Arabic we don’t know anyone here and you can tell how hard to manage asking about any thing to anybody here, everything so expensive (fucking insane) trying to get hold of anyone but as i already told you we don’t know that much of people here. We got 1 month visa here as Iraqis and after that we don’t know what will happen, my guessing is we will get send to prison then back to Iraq or maybe 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 EQUIEPMENTS OUR PLACE TO STAY IN TURKEY.

So for who ever concern if there is any thing you can do to help us or guide us and we mean any thing please step forward ..maybe some people now say we are out of the reasons to let us make this dream come true …but it takes more than reasons for us to give up what we believe.

METAL RULES

ACRASSICAUDA

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