Title:RAID ON HOUSE, BASRA, 22 SEPTEMBER 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 37
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Iraqi Police Service's Tactical Support Unit (TSU) raid a house near to Basra Palace.
Description: Image intensifier shots outside the house as members of the TSU prepare to go in. Police patrol the perimeter using their torches, searching for anything suspicious. In the yard is a sheep/goat and a pet pigeon, which is fed with water by one of the policemen. TUS members outside in inside the darkened house; a man is detained and bound, but his bindings are removed by a British liaison officer. A gun on the wall appears to be a decoration (not real) and is not seized.
Interview (normal light, full colour) with TSU officer (in Arabic).
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 37
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-09-22
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service, Tactical Support Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, Iraq (geography)
British Operations in Iraq from 2003 (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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 11 mins
