For the first time ever, a videotaped interrogation of a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay has been released to the public.

The video shows Omar Khadr, captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and held in extra-judicial detention at Guantanamo for more than five years, weeping with his face buried in his hands as he is questioned by a Canadian intelligence officer.

Mr Khadr, a Canadian, is the only Western citizen left in the US detention camp on Cuba and was the youngest prisoner there. He was detained after a firefight in Afghanistan and accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier.

The 10-minute excerpt, released by his lawyers, is part of a seven-hour video taken over four days of interviews in late 2003, when Mr Khadr was 16, which was originally marked “Secret/No Foreign".

At one point, Mr Khadr tells this questioner that he was tortured while at the US military detention centre at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where he was first detained after his arrest in 2002. He raises his orange shirt to show the wounds he sustained.

Breaking into sobs, he tells the agent: “You don’t care about me.”

The video provides insight into the effects of prolonged interrogation and detention on the Guantanamo prisoner. At one point, Mr 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," his interrogator replies.

As Mr Khadr continues crying, the agent calls for a break. Then the teenager is heard sobbing and chanting over and over again, "Help me."

Mr Khadr is from a family of Pakistani origin noted for its close ties to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

His father, Ahmed Saeed Khadr, who was killed in 2003, ran orphanages in Afghanistan during the war against the Soviet occupation, during which he developed close links with Bin Laden and other Mujahidin leaders. Canada considered him to be the country's most senior al-Qaeda member and a financier of terror.

Despite appeals from groups including Amnesty International and Unicef, the Canadian Government has already refused to seek extradition or repatriation for Mr Khadr, who is now 21.

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