Title:ICDC AREA SEARCH FOR ILLEGAL WEAPONS 16.06.04 IRAQ (ORIGINAL FOOTAGE TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFA 3144
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) undertake a search operation in local villages near Al Faw alongside the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Description: START 01:58:20 Bars and tone.
01:59:08 Image intensifier scenes of the troops arriving in the forward area, some sat in vehicles. Members of the ICDC liaise with British soldier, discusing tactics for the search.
02:01:17 Soldiers stand in the back of a pick-up truck, singing in Arabic; other soldiers wait in the back of lorries. Soldiers walk through streets. Convoy of vehicles drives down road.
02:04:31 Soldier runs along road. Camera vehicle passes local men sat by roadside. Soldiers wait - shots of landscape in the dark and of groups of ICDC members and their vehicles waiting.
02:06:46 Soldiers advancing through reed beds, carrying out a rummage search. General views of ICDC members preparing.
02:08:02 Dawn scenes in hamlet near Al Faw. Children (who have slept in the open air) wake up; sheep walk around near the makeshift beds. ICDC soldier on top cover of pick-up keeps watch. Further shots of flock of sheep and local family.
02:08:50 ICDC patrols on foot along roadside, and gather in hamlet. Local people watch.
02:10:04 ICDC soldier on radio.
02:10:28 Search uncovers a weapons cache: an AK-47 rifle with boxes of 30mm ammunition in a makeshift hide under a culvert. ICDC members approach and retrieve the find, putting everything into the back of a pick-up.
02:12:23 Search continues - a second weapon (a rocket-propelled grenade launcher) is discovered hidden on open ground.
02:13:09 Farmyard (full of sheep) and surrounding buildings are searched; in a courtyard, and AK-47 rifle is found concealed in a sack.
02:16:55 Soldier holds up a cameraman's back-focus chart: camera zooms in on this
02:17:18 Interview (in Arabic) with ICDC officer.
02:20:44 British and ICDC troops walk past outskirts of village.
02:20:44 Interview with ICDC member who discovered hidden weapons.
END 02:24:05
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFA 3144
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-06-16
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Army Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Allison, Gordon (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) (regiment/service)
Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, 602nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Al-Faw, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 25 mins
