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Gitmo interrogation video of 15-year-old detainee
Raw Story
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
TORONTO — Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations Tuesday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated U.S. prison in Cuba.
The 10 minutes of video _ selected by Omar Khadr’s Canadian lawyers from more than seven hours of footage recorded by a camera hidden in a vent _ shows a 16-year-old Khadr weeping, his face buried in his hands, during the 2003 interrogation that took place over four days.
The video, created by U.S. government agents and originally marked as secret, provides insight into the effects of prolonged interrogation and detention on the Guantanamo prisoner.
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A Canadian Security Intelligence Services agent in the video grills Khadr about events leading up to his capture as an enemy combatant when he was 15. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. He was arrested after he was found in the rubble of a bombed-out compound _ badly wounded and near death.
At one point in the interrogation, Khadr pulls off his orange prisoner shirt and shows the wounds he sustained in the firefight. He complains he can’t move his arms and says he had requested, but hadn’t received, proper medical attention.
“They look like they’re healing well to me,” the agent says of the injuries.
“No, I’m not. You’re not here (at Guantanamo),” Khadr says.
The agent later accuses Khadr of using his injuries and emotional state to avoid the interrogation.
“No, you don’t care about me,” Khadr says.
Khadr also tells his interrogator that he was tortured while at the U.S. military detention center at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where he was first detained after his arrest in 2002.
Later on in the tape, a distraught Khadr is seen rocking, his face in his hands.
“Help me,” he sobs repeatedly in despair.
On the final day, the agent tells Khadr that he was “very disappointed” in how Khadr had behaved, and tries to impress upon him that he should cooperate.
Khadr says he wants to go back to Canada.
“There’s not anything I can do about that,” the agent says.
The video is believed to be the first footage shown of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in action during its 24-year history, offering an unprecedented glimpse into its interrogation strategies.
The video was made public under Canadian court orders, and released by Alberta-based lawyers Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney a week after intelligence reports made public last week showed Khadr was abused in detention at the U.S. naval base-turned-prison on the tip of Cuba.
A Department of Foreign Affairs report said Canadian official Jim Gould visited Khadr in 2004 and was told by the American military that the detainee was moved every three hours to different cells to deprive him of sleep and familiar cell mates.
The report also says Khadr was placed in isolation for up to three weeks and then interviewed again.
Whitling and Edney released the video with hopes that public reaction to the footage will prompt Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lobby for his repatriation.
“We hope that the Canadian government will finally come to recognize that the so-called legal process that has been put in place to deal with Omar Khadr’s situation is grossly unfair and abusive,” Whitling said. “It’s not appropriate to simply allow this process to run its course.”
This video is from CBC, broadcast July 15, 2008.
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July 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
video down
July 15th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
The video is not working, but I saw the footage on television this morning.
It is deeply disturbing that the true crime here is that he was recruited as a boy, and heavily influenced if not brain washed by his recruiters.
He was captured at the tender age of 15, and it baffles me that our government has not demanded the return of Khadr to his home country of Canada so that he can receive proper health and phsyciatric treatment, as he is definitely in need of both. It is a sad to think that we would let this happen to one of our own citizens. I understand that he may have been involved in actions against U.S. soldiers, but I believe that as a young boy he was easily influenced by his recruiters and in suffering near fatal injuries and essentially being left for dead this poor guy has suffered enough, never mind also spending the remainder of his youth in Gitmo. Do the interrogators really think that this boy would avoid interrogation?? What info could he possibly provide them with?? He was 15 when he was captured!! Obviously he was at the bottom of the totem pole so to speak.Do they really think that he would have been privy to any important intel that would benefit them?? The whole situation is absurd, I am ashamed of my country, and of my Prime Minister. This is not the Canada I used to know, and I am deeply saddened. God bless you Khadr and I hope you will survive this ordeal, and our nation will wake up and get you out of there.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
On one hand people want tougher penalties for young offenders, and here poor boy, he was only 15 years old when he killed soldiers. I too am ashamed of being canadian. Not because of this poor young offender being treated unfairly, but because of people like you canadiangirl that doesn’t realize that the extremist want you dead also. Wake up and open your eyes. Does he have information to give, doubtfull. Was he part of, or is he still part of extremist group, more than likely. There’s no place for people like that in my country (Canada). What next, release Paul Bernardo!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
What do we expect? This makes me physically ill. There’s no sense in this world any longer. None.
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July 15th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
This poor kid was brainwashed and thrown into the worst of situations for a CHILD. There are laws that specifically deal with child soldiers and what’s happened to this kid at Gitmo is a disgrace for Canada and the U.S.. Torture is a WAR CRIME. He was tortured.
Ignore your rights folks and watch them go away!
July 15th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
If you can’t see the difference between a brainwashed boy and a serial killer, I feel very sorry for you. And I am very aware of what is going on in the world but these extremest you speak of are not a bunch of fifteen year old boys, and many of these groups are paid (if not controlled by)to carry out events by the same government that carries out these interogations on prisoners. If you really want to delve into the real matters at hand!! We need to band together against a greater evil here not nit pick and fight amongst each other.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Jean are u serious, get this through your head,911 was an inside job, they are torturing innocent people at Guantanamo, our gov’t are a bunch of criminals, it’s sad what is happening to Kadr, we should all be yelling at the top of our lungs protesting against our gov’t
July 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
this makes me ashamed to be a canadian. congrats stephen “bush junior” harper. this is your legacy, an american dick-rider who led us into an illegal occupation of a poor country to secure an oil pipeline for imperial amerika. oh yes, you are also a war criminal for allowing a child soldier to be kept in a military prison where torture was preformed. fucking shame on your family oilman, shame!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
jean, your paul barnardo reference puts you right in line with extremists. well done. looser.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:31 am
my point exactly. But then why is Karla free????
July 16th, 2008 at 7:52 am
WAKE UP JEAN.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:12 am
OK folks, here it is. There are reaction for every action. In this case, action for every reaction. Here’s my point. It’s about responsibilities, and history. I stirred the pot up and people are holding me responssible for my actions, Good. Can someone explain to me why I (tax payer) should responsible for A person that denounces his country (including his family). You play with fire, you will get burned. I have compassion for the people that were killed and injured from that so called (boy victim). I know my history, and I will never forget. This young fellow did not pull a prank, he tossed a grenade into a group of american soldiers. I know, invaders. Well if american should not be there, what the heck was he doing there. (I guess he did not want to be Canadian). You cannot reason with these people, all they respect is violence.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:15 am
OK folks, here it is. There are reaction for every action. In this case, action for every reaction. Here’s my point. It’s about responsibilities, and history. I stirred the pot up and people are holding me responssible for my actions, Good. Can someone explain to me why I (tax payer) should responsible for a person that denounces his country (including his family). You play with fire, you will get burned. I have compassion for the people that were killed and injured from that so called (boy victim). I know my history, and I will never forget. This young fellow did not pull a prank, he tossed a grenade into a group of american soldiers. I know, invaders. Well if americans should not be there, what the heck was he doing there. (I guess he did not want to be Canadian). You cannot reason with these people, all they respect is violence. Again, why should I be responsible for his actions. If it’s about a young confused boy, than what about the millions of supressed young muslim girls.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Yea Jean you sound like Team America
July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am
They’re called human rights as in those described under the Geneva conventions
July 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Jean, it has yet to be PROVEN that he tossed a grenade at US soldiers. Your judgement of him will His judgement of you.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I guess we should get Jean’s brown shirt ready so she can take down the names of those commiting the crime of “Thinking For Oneself” and going against the “Government Knows Best” Act.
Stand Up! Speak Out! Never Be Silenced!
Commander Clash
July 19th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Hey, Jean. Your words have are also ‘action’. If I were you, I’d begin thinking about the ‘reaction’ that will come from them. If you choose to accept indefinite incarceration without due process for others then you accept it for yourself.
I hope you don’t have to be falsely accused, indefinitely incarcerated and tortured to understand.