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04.04.2022 - 12:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A student from Cheetham Hill will travel to ISIS-occupied cities in Iraq to film a documentary. Zain Ullah, a Law and Criminology student at Manchester Metropolitan University , is set to visit places in Iraq that were once occupied by or are still occupied by terrorist group ISIS.
He is making a documentary about life after the Second Persian Gulf war, nearly 11 years on since the end of the war.
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Lasting from 2003 to 2011, The Second Persian Gulf War, also known as the Iraq War, was a largely U.S.-British invasion of Iraq, on the pretext that dictator Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction.
Troops managed to topple Saddam Hussein's regime and an end to the war was declared by the U.S. in December 2011.
On his trip to Iraq, Zain will be talking to residents who have lived through the invasion about how it has impacted their quality of life. He is set to visit Baghdad and Tikrit, which is the former capital of ISIS. Zain, 20, told the M.E.N.: " I am hoping to go to Iraq at the end of July. My documentary will examine the invasion of Iraq and how people coped with it.
"I will be visiting communities andasking local people to share their personal accounts and their lasting memories under the regime. Some of the cities that I will be visiting are still occupied by ISIS, whilst other cities are no longer occupied by them.
"I want to highlight the violence committed against the Shia Muslims in Iraq and the brutal rise of ISIS, as well as the U.S. withdrawal, and how it still affects residents today. I will visit key places such as the Republican Palace and Firdos Square, where the American army invaded and
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