Pressure mounts for Gitmo suspect return

EDMONTON, Alberta, July 16 (UPI) -- Attorneys for a young Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay as a terror suspect are urging he be repatriated after footage of his interrogation was released.

Videotape of then 16-year-old Omar Khadr crying and being harshly questioned by Canadian interrogators at the Cuba prison camp was released this week, and reaction to the footage is ratcheting up political pressure on the Canadian government to bring Khadr home, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.

"It's shameful, beyond disgraceful that he hasn't been returned," New Democratic Party opposition MP Wayne Marston said.

"The tapes do not show a dangerous terrorist, but instead a frightened, wounded Canadian boy pleading for help from Canadian officials," his attorney, Nathan Whitling, told reporters in Edmonton.

The government says Khadr, at age 15, took part in a firefight against U.S troops in Afghanistan in 2002, where he was captured. He is the only Westerner still detained at Guantanamo Bay, the newspaper said.