Title:OPERATION SAW TOOTH, BRITISH BRIEFING 17 JUNE 2005 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 495
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at Camp Condor, Al Amarah, before Operation Saw Tooth, a joint Coalition-Iraqi Army operation against rebel tribes near the Glory Canal in Maysaan Province. British unit is B Company 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:15 Warrior armoured vehicles passes camera; close-ups of the tracks (image breaks up towards the end of the shot).
00:01:05 Troops assemble in preparation for the operation, gathered around Snatch Land Rovers. They check their weapons at unloading bay. Soldeires gather and talk informally.
00:04:18 Warrior armoured vehicle and crew prepare.
00:05:01 The convoy drives out of the camp; they pass a concrete barrier on which militants have draped a banner in Arabic and English reading "British Soldiers... ATTENTION!! You must shame from yourself. Army face army; not facing people children every people and Women in our peaceful town by tanks, airplane and weapons."
Land Rovers park at the roadside (Iraqi Army camp?) soldiers make their way on foot across empty ground, line up and make safe their weapons. They return to their Land Rovers.
00:06:49 Group (British and Iraqi) discuss tactics by roadside, plus further shots of parked Land Rovers and Warriors.
00:10:42 Group of soldiers pose for photographs on top of a concrete bunker. Further discussions.
00:14:48 Outdoor briefing of the men on how to behave in the company of their Iraqi Army colleagues. (Strong language.)
00:15:59 Indoor briefing with British and Iraqi officers. British officer emphasises to his Iraqi counterpart that this is an Iraqi-led operation, but that the Staffords are there to provide whatever support is needed.
END 00:24:34
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 495
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-06-17
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: Camp Condor, 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: 24 mins
