'Kill me,' pleads 16 year old Canadian Guantanamo inmate

Omar Khadr, the only western prisoner still held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, broke down and wept when questioned by Canadian interrogators and moaned "kill me," video footage released overnight shows.

Khadr, a Canadian, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of 15 and is charged with killing a US medic in Afghanistan.

The secret video was taken in February 2003 and shows Khadr - then 16 - being grilled by officials from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy agency.

"Kill me," Khadr can clearly be heard moaning repeatedly in a desperate voice as he holds his head in his hands.

Extracts of videos taken over four days of interrogation were released by Khadr's lawyers after a long battle with the Canadian Government.

"It's the cry of a desperate young man. He expected the Canadian officials to take him home," Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney said.

The footage offers a rare glimpse into the Guantanamo Bay facility where the United States is holding about 265 prisoners in conditions criticised by human rights groups.

Khadr also told the interrogators "you don't care about me," complained of poor medical treatment, and removed his orange jumpsuit to show scars from the serious injuries he suffered during the firefight in Afghanistan in which the medic died.

Critics of Khadr's treatment say he is a child soldier who should be rehabilitated rather than punished.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has brushed off calls to intervene with Washington, saying Khadr faces serious charges.

Mr Edney said his client has suffered "torture and abuse" at the hands of the Americans during his time in Guantanamo.

Khadr has alleged US interrogators repeatedly threatened to rape him or send him to another country to be raped.

Documents released earlier this month show US authorities deprived Khadr of sleep ahead of a separate interview with an official from Canada's Foreign Ministry in 2004, moving him every three hours to make him more likely to talk.

Mr Edney said the videos - which do not show Khadr being physically abused - and the documents show Mr Harper misled Canadians when he said Ottawa had received assurances that Khadr was being treated well.

"They knew from Omar Khadr that he had been mistreated, that he was frightened of the Americans and had been tortured ... this kid has suffered enough. This kid needs to come home. This kid is not a terrorist," he said.

A Canadian judge ruled last month that Khadr has a right to see descriptions of interviews that the Canadians conducted with him, to help him prepare for his trial at Guantanamo.

The poor quality video shows Khadr at plain wooden table in an apparently windowless cell, and also sitting on a sofa.

He wears an orange prison jumpsuit, and at times buries his head in his hands, or pulls at his hair.

"I lost my eyes, I lost my feet, everything," he said.

"No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know," a Canadian official responded, telling the teenager to "relax a bit" and eat his hamburger.

Wayne Marston of the left-leaning opposition New Democratic Party said it was "disgraceful" for Mr Harper to say Canada had US assurances that Khadr was being treated properly.

Other western countries, such as Britain and Australia, have successfully pressed for the repatriation of citizens imprisoned in Guantanamo.