First video of Guantanamo Bay interrogation released

LAWYERS for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations yesterday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated US 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 US government agents and originally marked as secret, provides insight into the effects of prolonged interrogation and detention on the Guantanamo prisoner.