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I have been contacted by imagovernmentkidhaha claiming they are CSIS they left me a number for my lawyer to call 506-434-1379 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XFasZsC1YA teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a brief video excerpt released via the internet early Tuesday morning.The 10-minute video posted just after 5 a.m. ET is of poor quality and the voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the public. But it shows Khadr, 16 at the time, being interviewed by Canadian officials in late February 2003.The excerpt is from five formerly classified DVDs consisting of 7.5 hours of questioning, six months after Khadr was captured following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.The tapes, made public under a court order obtained by Khadr's lawyers, offer a rare glimpse of interrogations of Guantanamo detainees and of Khadr.Khadr, now 21, has been held at the military prison for the past six years.Shows interrogator woundsAt one point during one of the interviews, Khadr raises his orange shirt to show wounds on his back and stomach that he says he sustained during the firefight."I'm not a doctor, but I think you're getting good medical care," the interrogator responds.Khadr cries, "I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!" in reference to how the firefight in Afghanistan affected his vision."No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know," a man says.Between gasping sobs, Khadr tells the agent several times, "You don't care about me."As Khadr continues crying, the agent calls for a break.'Help me,' Khadr chants"Look, I want to take a few minutes. I want you to get yourself together. Relax a bit. Have a bite to eat and we'll start again," the interrogator says.Then Khadr begins sobbing with his head in both his hands, chanting over and over again in a haunting voice: "Help me ... Help me ... Help me."In the next interview excerpt, Khadr sits on a blue couch looking down as he is questioned. He mumbles short answers and declines an offer of food.The interrogator asks him a string of innocuous questions to try to warm him up."I want to stay in Cuba with you. Can you help me with that?" he says, commenting on how nice the weather is in the country.He later asks, "What other interesting things do you want to tell me about?"Khadr's response cannot be heard.Sessions videotaped by U.S. agentsThe U.S. Defence Department granted special permission to CSIS and Canada's Foreign Affairs ministry to question Khadr after he was brought to Guantanamo Bay, where he is still being held on charges he killed a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan.Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS agent, told CBC that the unprecedented release of the interrogation tapes is likely to put a damper on Canada's relationship with the U.S. — at least in the short term."Anybody can logically sort of assume that the Americans will be a little bit more cautious about what they give to us or or in the context they give it to us, the Canadian authorities," he said Monday.In May, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that branches of the Canadian government had to hand over key evidence against Khadr to his legal team to allow a full defence of the charges against him, which include accusations by the U.S. that he spied for and provided material support to terrorists.Several Canadian media organizations then applied for and obtained the release of the DVDs, as well as a package of documents that made headlines last week.Disc copies of the 5-DVD collection were to be made available to the media at 1 p.m. ET at the lawyers' offices in Edmonton. [ More Detail ]
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/15/khadr-tapes.htmlA teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a brief video excerpt released via the internet early Tuesday morning.The 10-minute video posted just after 5 a.m. ET is of poor quality and the voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the public. But it shows Khadr, 16 at the time, being interviewed by Canadian officials in late February 2003.The excerpt is from five formerly classified DVDs consisting of 7.5 hours of questioning, six months after Khadr was captured following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.The tapes, made public under a court order obtained by Khadr's lawyers, offer a rare glimpse of interrogations of Guantanamo detainees and of Khadr.Khadr, now 21, has been held at the military prison for the past six years.Shows interrogator woundsAt one point during one of the interviews, Khadr raises his orange shirt to show wounds on his back and stomach that he says he sustained during the firefight."I'm not a doctor, but I think you're getting good medical care," the interrogator responds.Khadr cries, "I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!" in reference to how the firefight in Afghanistan affected his vision."No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know," a man says.Between gasping sobs, Khadr tells the agent several times, "You don't care about me."As Khadr continues crying, the agent calls for a break.'Help me,' Khadr chants"Look, I want to take a few minutes. I want you to get yourself together. Relax a bit. Have a bite to eat and we'll start again," the interrogator says.Then Khadr begins sobbing with his head in both his hands, chanting over and over again in a haunting voice: "Help me ... Help me ... Help me."In the next interview excerpt, Khadr sits on a blue couch looking down as he is questioned. He mumbles short answers and declines an offer of food.The interrogator asks him a string of innocuous questions to try to warm him up."I want to stay in Cuba with you. Can you help me with that?" he says, commenting on how nice the weather is in the country.He later asks, "What other interesting things do you want to tell me about?"Khadr's response cannot be heard.Sessions videotaped by U.S. agentsThe U.S. Defence Department granted special permission to CSIS and Canada's Foreign Affairs ministry to question Khadr after he was brought to Guantanamo Bay, where he is still being held on charges he killed a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan.Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS agent, told CBC that the unprecedented release of the interrogation tapes is likely to put a damper on Canada's relationship with the U.S. — at least in the short term."Anybody can logically sort of assume that the Americans will be a little bit more cautious about what they give to us or or in the context they give it to us, the Canadian authorities," he said Monday.In May, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that branches of the Canadian government had to hand over key evidence against Khadr to his legal team to allow a full defence of the charges against him, which include accusations by the U.S. that he spied for and provided material support to terrorists.Several Canadian media organizations then applied for and obtained the release of the DVDs, as well as a package of documents that made headlines last week.Disc copies of the 5-DVD collection were to be made available to the media at 1 p.m. ET at the lawyers' offices in Edmonton. [ More Detail ]
Sri Lanka army soldiers battling against terror defences on the Mannar battlefront yesterday (June 9) found a 17 year old Tamil child soldier inside a captured terror bunker in the Alanlulama area. According to the defence sources in the area, troops found the female Child Soldier in hapless condition following their attack at five LTTE strong points in Alanakulama , North of Giant Tank last morning. Exposing yet another instance of exploitation of children by LTTE, the Child Soldier revealed that she was forcibly conscripted and deployed by the LTTE to guard its Forward Defences on the Mannar front .The Child Soldier speaking to defence.lk special correspondent in Mannar, has revealed that she was from Kilinochchi and was abducted in 2006 while returning from the Hindu Temple in her village. " They (LTTE) gave me one half months of weapon training and directly put into the battle with others " she said. Asked why she could not dessert the outfit she reveled that she was transported to the warfront blind folded and barely had any clue where they really were . " They (LTTE) just drop us to the bunkers, and give something to eat for the meals , that's all" , she said.Inquired about the other members of the outfit , she told that all the members who were killed at the battle were like her. " All of them had been forcibly conscripted by them (LTTE). None of then wanted to die like this " she added. According to the defence authorities in the area , the Child Soldier would be handed over to the Child Rehabilitation centre following the inquiries. LTTE is a terrorist outfit which has its name under the UN list of shame for using child soldiers for terrorist attacks for years. Despite the repetitive pledges given by its leader, V. Prabhakaran that he would release the children, he still maintains the infamous "baby brigade " with a estimated strength 6000 children. Fuelled by extreme tribalism by its megalomaniac leader, LTTE terrorists are fighting a bloody war against Sri Lankan citizen since 1983 for a mono ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. [ More Detail ]