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Last update - 20:14 15/07/2008 VIDEO: Lawyers release first-ever footage of Guantanamo interrogation By The Associated Press Tags: al-Qaida, Guantanamo, U.S.  Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner at the American Guantanamo Bay detention camp released hours 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. Omar Khadr's Canadian lawyers released excerpts of their client, then 16 years old, being questioned at Guantanamo Bay in 2003. The interrogation took place over the course of four days. Advertisement In the video, a Canadian Security Intelligence Services agent is shown grilling Khadr, a Canadian citizen and son of alleged al-Qaida financier, about events leading up to his capture as an enemy combatant. Khadr is set to face trial in October for allegedly lobbing a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces soldier following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan when he was 15. He has maintained that any statements he made to U.S. officials were obtained under torture and are therefore inadmissible. The 10 minutes of video - selected by his lawyers from more than seven hours of footage - shows Khadr weeping, his face buried in his hands. At one point in the interrogation, Khadr pulls off his orange prisoner shirt and shows the wounds he sustained in the 2002 firefight, six months earlier. 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 whimpers. At another point, Khadr complains about his vision, saying, "I lost my eyes." "No, you still have your eyes. Your feet are still at the end of your legs." The agent accuses Khadr of using his injuries and emotional state to avoid the interrogation. He tells the detainee to look him in the eyes and not cover his face. "No, you don't care about me," the teen responds. Khadr also tells them 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. Khadr is calm at times, at other times in despair, and at other times seemingly resigned and indifferent. Later in the tape, a distraught Khadr is seen rocking, his face in his hands. "Help me, kill me" he sobs repeatedly. 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 footage was recorded from a camera hidden in a vent. The video, created by U.S. government agents and originally marked "Secret/No Foreign," provides insight into the effects of prolonged interrogation and detention on the Guantanamo prisoner. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Commander Jeffrey Gordon, denied that Khadr was mistreated while in U.S. custody. "Our policy is to treat detainees humanely and Khadr has been treated humanely," Gordon said. The video is believed to be the first footage ever shown of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in action during its 24-year history, offering an unprecedented glimpse into its interrogation strategies. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in May that the Canadian government had to hand over key evidence against Khadr to his legal team to allow a full defense of the charges against him, which include accusations by the U.S. that he spied for and provided material support to terrorists. In June, a Canadian Federal Court judge ordered the Canadian government to release the video to the defense team after the court ruled the U.S. military's treatment of Khadr broke human rights laws, including the Geneva Conventions. Defense lawyers Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney released the video Tuesday, 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. The Department of Foreign Affairs reports said Canadian official Jim Gould visited Khadr at the U.S. military base in 2004 and was told by the American military that the detainee was subjected to what U.S. military officials call the frequent flyer program, requiring him to move 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 Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lobby for his repatriation. Thus far Harper has maintained he will not seek Khadr's return to Canada. 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