Title:OPERATION CAHOOT, BASRA, OCTOBER 2005 (MASTER EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 371
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Soldiers operating from Shaibah Logistics Base conduct house searches on suspect premises in Basra, and unearth hidden weapons. (Shot with an image intensifier, giving a grainy, monochrome green glow to the image.)
Description: START 00:00:00
00:00:24 British soldiers gather by their vehicles outside premises in Basra. A group climbs over the wall of a garden and open the gate to a suspect house.
00:01:55 Soldiers take up their positions outside the house. Once inside, they begin a search of the house. Various items (such as the clip from an automatic weapon and a grenade) are found.
00:02:47 Outside on the street, soldier keeps watch from top cover of a Snatch Land Rover; others keep watch at street corners. A dog barks in the road.
00:03:49 Back inside the house, the search continues; an AK47 is found hidden under a sofa. Boxes are sifted; batteries and other potential bomb-making equipment are found, along with several small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. An inventory is made.
00:06:25 Keeping watch outside the house.
00:06:41 (Normal, full colour vision.) Officer (Royal Regiment of Wales ?) gives an account of the operation (three men had been detained). Abrupt end.
END 00:07:38
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 371
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-10-22
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 (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, 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: 7 mins
