Gitmo interrogation video released

For the first time, video of an interrogation at Guantanamo Bay is available to the public. In it, we see 16-year-old Omar Khadr being interrogated in late February 2003. Khadr is a Canadian citizen, and a court in that country ordered the 7-1/2 hours of the video interrrogation released after Khadr’s attorneys filed a motion. DVDs containing the footage had been turned over to Khadr’s defense team by the Pentagon.

Today, the law firm released a 10-minute compilation culled from the entire footage. Several versions are available on YouTube and other sites, but most are truncated. The video below is the entire thing (9:54 long).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7b90ecYJVY

The full 10-minute version is also available as a Windows Media file at the CBC’s website here [WMV]

Fourteen pages of documents were also released, and were posted to the CBC website here [PDF]

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Further reading:

‘You don’t care about me,’ Khadr sobs in interview tapes [CBC]

The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr [Rolling Stone, 2006]

The Case of Omar Ahmer Khadr, Canada [Human Rights First]

Pentagon page on military commission proceedings against Khadr [Defense Dept]

{Added July 19:}

How did Omar Khadr end up in Guantánamo? [Guardian of London]

Book: Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

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15,000 more Iraq detainees by year-end (in addition to the 60,000 so far)

According to the Army, the US is planning to imprison 15,000 more “detainees” in Iraq over the next six months. (60,000 people have been detained so far.)

These little-known figures were revealed in a military contract that was flagged by Sharon Weinberger of Wired’s Danger Room blog. (However, they aren’t the focus of the post, which is titled “Strangest Iraq Contract Yet: Store Detainee Property.”) So far the media have completely ignored these revelations.