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NATO support for the Iraqi Armed Forces

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May 1, 2016 | 5:03

May 2016 and January 2017 in Turkey and Spain

- At a training facility in Jordan, NATO experts are teaching the Iraqi Armed Forces the skills they need to clear their towns and cities of IEDs. The course is part of NATO’s Defence Capacity Building Package for Iraq.

- A team of instructors from the NATO Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence is deploying to Iraq to participate in a “train-the-trainers” programme to help its security forces to better counter roadside bomb terrorist attacks. This counter-IED training programme is led by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.

Team of instructors from the NATO Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence deploying to Iraq (January 2017)
1. (00:00) Wide shot/Pan right - C-IED COE building
2. (00:04) Various shots - C-IED COE Center sign
3. (00:13) Various Shots - Instructors entering first meeting
4. (00:23) Various Shots – Instructors attending first meeting
5. (00:39 ) Various Shots – Instructors talking in the hallway during a break
6. (00:52) Various Shots - Colonel Juan Enrique Gomez on the phone before meeting instructors
7. (01:08) Various Shots - Colonel Gomez briefing with the instructors.
8. (01:29). Various Shots - Instructors during a break
9. (01:32) Various Shots. Interior. Coronel Gomez briefing.
10. (01:37) Tilt up - C-IED COE Sign

NATO experts teaching the Iraqi Armed Forces in Jordan (May 2016)
11. (01:42) VARIOUS SHOTS - IRAQI EOD OPERATORS PREPARING TO DETONATE IED DURING TRAINING EXERCISE
12. (01:50) VARIOUS SHOTS – CONTROLLED EXPLOSIONS DURING TRAINING EXERCISE
13. (02:23) VARIOUS SHOTS - CLOSE UP OF IRAQI ARMY AND EOD TEAM BADGE
14. (02:33) VARIOUS SHOTS - NATO C-IED EXPERT TRAINING IRAQI EOD OPERATORS
15. (03:01) VARIOUS SHOTS - IRAQI EOD OPERATORS CONSTRUCTING IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE CHARGES UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF NATO INSTRUCTORS
16. (03:28) CLOSE SHOT - DOOR BREACHING SIGN IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC
17. (03:33) VARIOUS SHOTS - KING ABDULLAH II SPECIAL OPERATIONS TRAINING CENTER (KASOTC) FRONT GATE
18. (03:45) WIDE SHOT - PAN OF KASOTC HELMENT SCULPTURE AT ENTRANCE
19. (03:50) CLOSE SHOT - JORDANIAN SOLDIER STANDS GUARD AT KASOTC FRONT GATE
20. (03:55) WIDE SHOT - PAN OF KASOTC TRAINING AREA
21. (04:00) VARIOUS SHOTS – CLASSROOM SCENE SHOWING IRAQI SECURITY OFFICERS TAKING A LESSON IN CIVIL MILITARY PLANNING, TAUGHT BY A JORDANIAN INSTRUCTOR
22. (04:44) VARIOUS SHOTS - IRAQI SECURITY OFFICERS RECEIVING MEDICAL TRAINING