Gitmo Interrogation Video Released - 'You Don't Care About Me' Khadr Sobs

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Gitmo interrogation video released

By Russ Kick at 15 July, 2008, 2:47 pm

For the first time, video of an interrogation at Guantanamo Bay is available to the public. In it, we see 16-year-old Omar Khadr being interrogated in late February 2003. Khadr is a Canadian citizen, and a court in that country ordered the 7-1/2 hours of the video interrrogation released after Khadr’s attorneys filed a motion. DVDs containing the footage had been turned over to Khadr’s defense team by the Pentagon.

Today, the law firm released a 10-minute compilation culled from the entire footage. Several versions are available on YouTube and other sites, but most are truncated. The video below is the entire thing (9:54 long).

The full 10-minute version is also available as a Windows Media file at the CBC’s website here:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/gitmo-interrogation-video

Fourteen pages of documents were also released, and were posted to the CBC website here:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/gitmo-interrogation-video

Further reading:

‘You don’t care about me,’ Khadr sobs in interview tapes - CBC, July 15, 2008

'You don't care about me,' Omar Khadr sobs in interview tapes

Tapes reveal interrogation by Canadian officials

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | 11:22 PM ET
CBC News

Video images show the Toronto-born Omar Khadr in the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The black dot obscures the face of his interrogator. (CBC)
A teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in interrogation footage released by his lawyers Tuesday.

The video is of poor quality and the voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the public. But it shows the Toronto-born Khadr, 16 at the time, being interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials over several days in late February 2003.

The footage is from five formerly classified DVDs consisting of 7½ hours of questioning that took place six months after Khadr was captured, following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. Khadr, who is a Canadian citizen, has been held at Guantanamo Bay for six years on charges that he killed a U.S. medic during a firefight in Afghanistan.

Khadr's defence lawyers have repeatedly called for their client to be returned to Canada, arguing he was a child soldier and was tortured to extract confessions.

The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr - Rolling Stone, 2006

The Case of Omar Ahmer Khadr, Canada - Human Rights First

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1. I'm not going to watch that.

But thanks for posting it.