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Video of Gitmo Interrogation Hits Web

Posted Jul 15, 08 6:47 AM CDT in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – A videotape of Canadian officials interrogating a sobbing 16-year-old detainee at Guantanamo Bay surfaced on the Internet today. The clip, made public under a court order obtained by the suspect's lawyer, is the first such footage from the detention center to reach the public, the CBC reports. It shows an intelligence agent grilling Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen charged with killing a US soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan. Khadr says he was severely tortured in Afghanistan.

The sessions were videotaped by American authorities during a special collaboration with Canadian intelligence officials. At one point the prisoner raises his orange shirt to expose his wounds; when the intelligence agent dismisses them, he wails, "You don't care about me." The full 7-hour interrogation will be made public later today.

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Omar Khadr, photographed before he was imprisoned. A 7-hour videotape of Khadr's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay has surfaced.   (AP Photo/Family Handout via Canadian Press)
Nathan Whitling, lawyer for accused terrorist Omar Khadr, gestures at the Supreme Court of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, May 23, 2008. The high court ruled 9-0 Friday that Khadr has a constitutional...   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)
In this courtroom sketch, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, far left, sits flanked by two civilian and one military lawyer, inside the courtroom during a U.S. Military Tribunal arraignment, at Guantanamo...   (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)
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