There is a drone of a ventilation fan as Omar Khadr sits alone in an interrogation room somewhere in the bowels of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and he begins to sob.  

Dressed in orange, then 16 years old, the Toronto-born terror suspect sobs, and sobs again. He seems to say "kill me," over and over again. Kill me."

This morning, lawyers for Mr. Khadr released this and other video segments of Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents interrogating Mr. Khadr. The segments are only part of four days of taped interviews from Feb. 13, 2003, that the lawyers plan to release later today in Edmonton.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ordered the federal government to release the tapes and a series of related documents to the lawyers, who had launched successive actions to obtain the formerly confidential files.

The videos offer a rare glimpse of Canada's spies in action and their interrogation techniques.

Mr. Khadr's lawyers said the videos do not show Mr. Khadr being tortured or mistreated during the interrogations.

At times friendly, at times hostile, Mr. Khadr's three interrogators make it clear they don't buy his tear-drenched pleas. At one point, just before Mr. Khadr is left alone with the ventilation fan to sob, a female agent is heard saying, "Put your shirt back on."

Mr. Khadr had pulled off his shirt, leaving his shoulders and upper chest bare to show the wounds he said he received as a result of torture while at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He had been transferred from Afghanistan to the U.S. naval base in Cuba the previous October.

"I can't move my arms," says Mr. Khadr, sobbing.

"They look like they are healing well to me," says the main interrogator. "I am not a doctor, but I think you are getting good medical care."

"No, I am not; you're not here. I lost my eyes. I lost my feet, everything," he appears to say.

"No, you still have your eyes and your feet are at the end of your legs," says the interrogator, after suggesting they take a break. "I understand this is stressful but, by using this strategy to talk to us, it is not going to be... helpful, we have a limited amount of time. We have heard this story before."

Moments later, Mr. Khadr, hand over face, says in a tear-weary voice, "You don't care about me."

The interrogator takes a friendly tone.

"That is not true. People do care about you," says the interrogator.

He again proposes that they take a break. The female agent tells him to put on his shirt and another agent turns on the fan.

"Put the fan on so you're cool," says another agent.

"Take a few minutes and relax a bit," says the main interrogator.

Critics have begun reacting to the video.

I certainly hope [the video] will raise the conscience of Canadians," Dennis Edney, Khadr's Edmonton lawyer told CBC News Tuesday. "He has suffered more than enough, he should be brought home.

"Canada knew full well the conditions that he was in. They should have asked questions about him being tortured."

"He had no lawyer, no contact with anyone -- this doesn't happen in Canada and it shouldn't have happened to this young man."

NDP human rights critic Wayne Marsden told CBC News that all the other child combatants have been taken out of Guantanamo. "There are provisions to bring him back. We should bring him back and rehabilitate him, don't blame him for the sins of his father."

"The question is what ministers were briefed on this interrogation?" For Canada to deny that he was being mistreated is "disgraceful at this point. It's quite clear that that is not the case," Mr. Marsden said.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ordered the federal government to release the tapes and a series of related documents to the lawyers, who had launched successive actions to obtain the formerly confidential files.

Mr. Khadr's Pentagon-assigned military lawyer may use the tapes as part of the Canadian's defence. Mr. Khadr is scheduled to be tried before a U.S. military commission in early October on five war crimes charges, including the murder of a US soldier in a grenade attack during the 2002 firefight.

Notes U.S. officials wrote of the interrogations are included in some of the accompanying documents that were released by the lawyers separately last week.

The interrogations took place over four days from Feb. 13, 2003, at the U.S. naval base in Cuba following Mr. Khadr's transfer from detention in Afghanistan the previous October.

Sitting in a folding chair on the first day, Mr. Khadr ate a burger and drank a soda, according to one report, whose author said he could not hear what was being said.

Mr. Khadr "mumbled and had his head down" on the second day, the author said. The detainee also would "not look at his interviewers."

The author said when the Canadian officials asked Mr. Khadr why his demeanour had changed, he replied: "Promise you'll protect me from the Americans."

Mr. Khadr also said he had been tortured while detained in Afghanistan, the U.S. official wrote, and said everything he had told the Canadians the previous day "was a lie."

The Canadians asked Mr. Khadr if he'd spoken with anyone the previous night, and Mr. Khadr "denied anyone coached him," the U.S. official says. "He covered his eyes and began to cry heavily."

The U.S. official describes how Mr. Khadr removed his shirt, saying it was to show wounds on his back and shoulder. Mr. Khadr was shot and suffered shrapnel wounds during the firefight in Afghanistan.

"Mr. Khadr put his head back in his hands and cried heavily," said the official.

Mr. Khadr sat on a couch on the third day, the official writes. "He declined food that was offered to him."

The official said the Canadians asked Mr. Khadr about members of his family, among them his father, whom the U.S. has accused of being chief financier to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Mr. Khadr's father was killed in an anti-terrorist raid in Pakistan in 2003.

On the fourth day the official says the Canadian interrogators "began to get more confrontational with Mr. Khadr, who "denied killing anyone."

"Mr. Khadr began to cry and was crying when the interrogators left," the official says

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