Omar Khadr: The Interrogation

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/article/footage-guantanamo-interrogation-released-first-time

Tuesday 15 July 2008


by: Colin Freeze and Omar El Akkad, The Globe and Mail

New video footage has just been released of the interrogation of the young Omar Khadr (seen here in a family photo).
(Photo: Reuters / Mike Cassese)
Video captures righteous indignation.

Before the rage, the resignation and the tears, came the trust. Teenaged prisoner Omar Khadr seemed sure that his countrymen from Canada had come to Cuba to help him and spoke freely when they asked questions.

On the second day, the reality almost visibly dawned on his face. Agents had asked about his links to al-Qaeda, about his friends and family in Afghanistan, about whether he really thought dozens of black-eyed virgins awaited him in janna, or paradise.

The teenager realized the obvious. The Canadian agents weren't there to help. They were there to mine him for information. So he wept. He denied everything. He pulled at his hair and pulled down his orange prisoner's suit. He showed his war wounds, which nearly killed him during a battle with U.S. soldiers six months earlier.

[midnight]

1. Just end this already.

[HummanaHummana]

2. He was wounded fighting and killing US soldiers.

He admits to being wounded fighting against the US, so he is rightly a POW. I did not see any evidence of "torture", only despair at being caught and detained. Tough shit! You wanted to be a man and start a jihad against the civilized world, man up when you get captured.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. "[S]o he is rightly a POW"

Okay, connect the dots there, buddy.