Canadian teenager cries in Guantanamo interrogation video

OTTAWA (AFP) - A sobbing Canadian teenager begs for help as he is interrogated at the US “war on terror” camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the very first video glimpse of any such questioning showed on Tuesday.

The video was released by attorneys for terror suspect Omar Khadr, who is shown being questioned at the prison by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents in February, 2003.

Khadr is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, accused of killing a US soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan. He has been held at the US facility naval since his arrest in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and faces an upcoming US military commission on terrorism charges.

“Help me, help me, help me,” Khadr says in the video, weeping, holding his head in his hands.

The footage covers seven and a half hours of questioning over three days. It depicts a dejected young man, tense from the pang of injuries suffered in a brush with US soldiers six months earlier.

In one excerpt, Khadr tugs at his hair, and pulls his orange prisoner suit over his head to show his interrogator his battle scars.

“I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything,” he says.