Title:OPERATION REPUGNANT, AL-AMARAH AND MAYSAN PROVINCE, SEPTEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 251
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes of Operation Repugnant, a night arrest and search operation in Al-Amarah. Shot with an image intensifier.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:31 British troops prepare at Camp Abu Naji, packing their equipment. One soldier carries out a radio check. Warrior vehicles move out ready for the operation.
00:03:27 Troops on the ground in the streets of Al-Amarah. They move to the target location where members of the Iraqi Police Service's Tactical Support Unit are in position.
00:05:43 All troops are at target location. Search begins: TSU member knocks on gate and talks to man. Cars are searched. Ammunition and explosives search dog is let loose.
00:07:51 Soldiers on the roof of the target location, looking out over the streets.
00:09:29 Search inside the location, followed by shots of the search teams on the streets outside.
00:10:49 Team assembles at a lock-up, which is accessed using bolt cutters. Other units are opened in the same way and searched. One soldier takes notes on a clipboard.
00:16:46 Search dog is brought to the lock-ups and set to work. The dog inspects several units.
00:26:31 (Normal camera image.) A mortar is found in one of the lock-ups; the rest of the unit is searched.
00:21:32 (Image intensifier.) General views of the search site, with British and TSU vehicles. One soldier adjusts his night vision eyepiece.
00:24:18 ATO arrives by van and arranges the clearance of the mortar and rockets that have been discovered.
00:29:24 Interview with Major Mike Devlin (?) OC C Company, Staffords Battlegroup, at the headquarters of Task Force Maysan, Camp Abu Naji; he describes Operation Repugnant and itemises the weapons recovered (four 107mm Chinese rockets and a complete mortar assembly).
END 00:34:01
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 251
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-09-11
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
McIvor, Mac (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service, Tactical Support Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Abu Naji, Al-Amarah, Iraq (geography)
Al-Amarah, 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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 29 mins
