OTTAWA — Video recordings released Tuesday showing interrogations of the only Canadian held at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba provided an unprecedented glimpse inside the compound.
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The video footage, which provides the most extensive videotaped images yet seen from inside Guantánamo Bay, shows Mr. Khadr pleading with a Canadian intelligence agent for help and, at one point, shows him displaying chest and back wounds that had still not healed months after his capture in Afghanistan.
I haven't seen the video but there is no mention of physical abuse in the article. The lawyers who released this video have 7 hours of it and they only released 10 minutes and given that they want to use this to pressure for Omar Khadr's release from Guantanamo Bay I have to assume they released the most damning 10 minutes. That would seem to indicate to me that there wont be any release of this video showing this guy getting his ass kicked by guards or anything similar.
I am attempting to download the video but this is apparently hosted on a 14.4 kbaud modem or something cuz it is taking hours.
UPDATE: Got at least part of the video from you tube:
UPDATE 2: Longer video here
plus more from MSNBC:
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.
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The agent later accuses Khadr of using his injuries and emotional state to avoid the interrogation.
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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.
Maybe it's just because I am an evil American, but I feel zero sympathy for this guy. He reminds me of my nieces when they cry because someone doesn't love them or they don't get their way.
UPDATE 3: Is Katherine Herridge watching the same video I am. I just caught her on FOX and she is talking about the stressful interrogation and that Khadr wanted to show the interrogator where he had been tortured. Well I didn't hear that and as for stress, holy crap in my family Sunday dinner table conversations are more stressful. I did learn something though - apparently this kids entire family is accused of being al-Qaeda by the Canadians.
Maybe everyone needs to grow a sac and let this kid rot.
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