Title:OPERATION WELCOMBE, STAGED SCENES, BASRA, 21 JULY 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 998
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Staged scenes shot at a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) for use in a PSYOPS video to train Iraqi soldiers in searching for smuggled weapons. The soldiers in the enactments are all Iraqi, and the checkpoint is on an open desert road.
Description: Scruffily-dressed guards (one smoking a cigarette) let vehicle through VCP. Smartly-uniformed guards stop vehicle at a VCP. Guard tells driver to get out of the vehicle (shot across bonnet). Vehicle occupants are searched according to correct procedures. Blankets on the back seat of the car are searched and illegal weapons are found - the occupants are told to lie on the road. Guard stops vehicle and talks to driver while colleague searches the back of the pickup. Guard shakes driver's hand and the vehicle moves off.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:BFV 998
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-07-21
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Platfoot, Loz (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Iraqi Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
