Title:OPERATION REPUGNANT, AL-AMARAH AND MAYSAN PROVINCE, SEPTEMBER 2005 (EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 346
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: British troops prepare at Camp Abu Naji. Warrior vehicles move out ready for the operation. 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. Ammunition and explosives search dog is let loose. Team assembles at a lock-up, which is accessed using bolt cutters. Other units are opened in the same way and searched. (Normal camera image.) A mortar is found in one of the lock-ups; the rest of the unit is searched. ATO arrives by van and arranges the clearance of the mortar and rockets that have been discovered. Interview with Major Mike Dublin (?) at the headquarters of Task Force Maysaan, Camp Abu Naji OC C Company, Staffords Battlegroup, describing Operation Repugnant and itemising the weapons recovered.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 346
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: 94; Running time: 5 mins
