Actor in 9/11 film denied entry to US
Ironic.
If he really wanted to attend the premiere, he should have just walked across the Mexican-US border. Why bother with all this legal mumbo jumbo?LONDON (Reuters) - An Iraqi actor who plays a hijacker in a new film about the September 11 attacks on the United States has been denied entry into the country for the movie's premiere, he told a newspaper on Friday.
Lewis Alsamari, who has lived in Britain since 1995, stars in "United 93", which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York next week.
Directed by Briton Paul Greengrass, the film about the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania has sparked debate about whether Americans are ready to see an on-screen portrayal of the events.
Alsamari, 30, said he may have been denied entry by the U.S. embassy in London because he served in the Iraqi army in the early 1990s.
"I think this was because I am still an Iraqi citizen and fought in the army -- but that was only because I was forced to," he told London's Evening Standard newspaper.
"It would be so disappointing not to be able to go because I still have not seen the film. I have only seen footage and it would have been amazing to be in New York for the premiere."
A spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in London said she was aware of the case, but did not have any immediate comment on the status of Alsamari's application to travel to New York.
2 Comments:
Geez Fraley, you are a whore. The Heartland Institute is a shill for industries that benefit from its pro-smoking, pro-pollution rhetoric.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute
I don't know about everyone else, but I have absolutely no interest in seeing this film. I know what happened, and to see something like that played out on screen is just something I really don't need.
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