July 15, 2008
Video: Canadian Teenage al Qaeda Member 'Tortured' at Gitmo
Raw video of Omar Khadr being interrogated by Canadian agents at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From what I gather, this is the first video to be released of an interrogation of a prisoner at Gitmo.
Khadr was just 15 years old when he was captured by U.S. troops in Afghanistan following a firefight. Khadr comes from a family of jihad supporters. His father, Ahmad Khadr, was arrested and unsuccessfully prosecuted in Pakistan for financing al Qaeda in the 1990s. There's really no doubt that the entire family was close to top al Qaeda leaders such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Laith al-Libi.
The video below shows a distraught 16 year old Khadr, but there is no sign of physical or any other type of abuse. Lefties in Canada and the U.S. claim the tape proves the U.S. tortures people at Guantanamo Bay. Watch for yourself.
The biggest caveat, though, is that there is an additional 6.5 hours of video that will be released today. Given the way Khadr moans and groans in this video, I'm guessing that in that you could probably splice together a lengthy propaganda video intent on making the U.S. look bad and terrorists like Khadr look like victims.
He really is a whiney little bitch.
After the younger Khadr was caught, soldiers found a video tape of him with al Qaeda leader al-Libi. The video showed the two wiring the house that Khadr was caught in with explosives. I'm guessing Khadr's lawyers don't want that video released.
Now contrast the way the U.S. treats illegal enemy combatants like Khadr, who many on the Lef claim was 'tortured', with the way the Taliban treats women accused of being prostitutes.
