In face of new evidence child-detainee was abused and tortured Canada reaffirms support for Khadr's Guantanamo Bay detention

The video footage, which dates from February 2003, shows a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) interrogator dismissing and mocking Khadrs complaints of abuse. At another point a CSIS agent is overheard threatening Khadr with reprisals against his family, most of who live in Canada.

The Canadian government has always insisted it had no reason to believe that Khadr was tortured. But the documentsreleased like the video footage over the governments objections and as the result of a court ordershow Canadian authorities were aware in 2004 that Khadr had been subjected to the frequent flyer program, i.e. long-term sleep deprivation.

The video footage and documents have added fuel to a mounting public outcry over the Canadian governments complicity in the abuse of the Canadian-born Khadr the only Western citizen still detained in the patently illegal Guantanamo Bay camp and facing prosecution by the Bush administrations kangaroo-court War Commissions.

Yet the Conservative government of Stephen Harper remains adamant in proclaiming its support for Khadrs continued detention and for his prosecution by the US military.