Cheetham Hill student will travel to Iraq for documentary
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 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. READ MORE:Wayne Rooney's Amazon documentary maker on what surprised him most about former footballer 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.
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