Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Plato, a search and arrest operation involving Multi-National and Iraqi forces.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:48 Night move, shot with image intensifier, shows vehicles of the Danish Army preparing to set out from Shaibah Logistics Base to Al-Qurnah; these include MOWAG Piranha armoured vehicles and MOWAG Eagles with gun mountings. Members of the Iraqi Police Tactical Support Unit (TSU) are also involved.
00:03:20 Final briefing before departure (in English).
00:04:08 First vehicles (including armoured ambulance) set off; others prepare. Danish flag flies (its colours not visible due to the image intensifier).
00:05:55 Views from moving vehicle accompanying the convoy (still at Shaibah). Tracking shots of vehicles on the ground. Further shots from moving vehicle as the convoy sets off. Dashboard display of camera-vehicle glows.
00:14:20 Normal camera: night shots of vehicle convoy in motion. Dawn rises over the desert. Daylight shots of the convoy driving along road and arriving at Al-Qurnah. British and Danish troops are in evidence along with Iraqi Police and Tactical Support Unit (TSU).
00:18:06 Search of properties begins at the edge of Al-Qurnah. Iraqi camouflaged pick-up truck drives past. Local men watch as TSU members prepare to search a house; man is interrogated as his bag is searched.
00:20:34 Close shot of Iraqi TSU pick-up with gun mounting.
00:20:46 Search continues in house and grounds; man is detained. Police (most of them wearing ski masks) keep watch. Tornado aircraft flies overhead. British soldiers keep watch and patrol the edge of the marshlands.
00:24:19 Local man has his papers checked by the TSU. Further general views of the operations; one of the TSU members is carrying a grenade launcher. Search of the village continues: miscellaneous scenes as properties are routinely checked. Women and children watch.
00:34:43 In the grounds of one house, a bag of documents is searched; a policeman dismantles a pile of sheathes to uncover a sack (contents unseen). Local man is questions as other villagers watch. The man's car is searched.
00:39:10 General views of the village: girl checks cow and calf. Search continues; general views of the large number of vehicles taking part. Further views, including men walking into the village, bird flying overhead, Danish soldiers standing by.
00:46:08 Merlin helicopter comes in to land outside the village and Brigadier Patrick Marriott, Commander of 7th Armoured Brigade, disembarks with his entourage. He speaks with Lieutenant Colonel Flemming Toft, CO of the Danish Army Battalion taking part in the operation, and Major General Al Hassan Al Sad, The Chief of Police in Basra.
00:50:45 Interview with Captain in the Tactical Support Unit about the operation (eight detentions had been made).
00:55:45 Interview with Major Thomas Fogh, Chief of Operations for the Danish Army.
END 00:58:46
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 719
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-01-16
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Dawson, Rick (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Marriott, Patrick (person)
Toft, Flemming (person)
Fogh, Thomas (person)
Sad, Al Hussein Al (person)
Danish Army (regiment/service)
British Army, 7th Armoured Brigade (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service, Tactical Support Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Al-Qurnah, 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: 58 mins
