(CNN) -- A 16-year-old Canadian prisoner weeps and buries his face in his hands in an interrogation video that provides the first public look at such an interview at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Khadr is shown in an image from a video taken during an interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2 of 2 The video was released Tuesday by attorneys for Omar Khadr, now 21, whom Canadian intelligence agents questioned in 2003 and 2004 at Guantanamo.

The video segment released Tuesday is from 2003.

Khadr was 15 in 2002 when he was taken into U.S. custody in Afghanistan and accused of killing an American soldier. He was one of about eight juveniles at the prison, although most of them have been released.

In the video, Khadr is seen removing his orange prison shirt to show wounds he says he received during torture. Watch a glimpse of the interrogation »

While crying, he says, "I requested medical for a long time" but didn't get it. "I lost my eyes, I lost my feet, everything."

But the interrogator responds, "No, you still have your eyes. Your feet are still at the end of your legs.

"Look, I want to take a few minutes, let you get yourself together ... relax a bit, have a bite to eat.

"I understand this is stressful but by using this strategy to talk to us, it's not going to be any more helpful. We've got a limited amount of time."

Omar Khadr
• Canadian citizen


• Captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at age 15


• Accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier
Khadr then says, "You don't care about me."

His interrogator responds, "I do care about you, but I want to talk to the honest Omar that I was talking to yesterday."

"I will be honest," Khadr responds.

Before a break, a woman asks Khadr to put his shirt back on, and someone turns on a fan. Khadr, seen through a one-way mirror, sobs uncontrollably while alone.

At a news conference Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesman said Khadr has not been mistreated.

"Our policy is to treat detainees humanely, and Khadr has been treated humanely," said Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon.

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Asked about allegations that Khadr was sleep-deprived to weaken him before the Canadian interrogation, Gordon said: "We don't respond to every allegation. He was treated humanely."

Gordon also was asked about defense lawyers' efforts to get Khadr moved out of Guantanamo and returned to Canada.

"We believe Khadr should be held accountable for his actions. His trial date has been set for October," the officer said. "The charges are grave."

Khadr, whose family allegedly has ties to al Qaeda, has been accused of lobbing a grenade that killed U.S. Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Christopher James Speer following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.

In April 2007, Khadr was formally charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism and spying, according to his charge sheets.


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year concluded the U.S. military could not limit what information the courts hear when foreign detainees are challenging their imprisonment and ordered that documents related to Khadr's case be released.

Canadian federal Justice Richard Mosely ordered that tapes of Khadr's interrogation be provided to his attorneys for his defense.

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