30 June 2011
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Mr Holder said investigations of other CIA interrogations were “not warranted”
The US is to open criminal inquiries into the deaths of two CIA detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003.
Gul Rahman died in November 2002 at a CIA prison in Afghanistan and Manadel al-Jamadi died at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, according to reports.
Attorney General Eric Holder accepted the recommendation of an investigation into treatment of detainees.
But he said the probes into 101 cases since the 9/11 attacks would lead to no other prosecutions.
Mr Holder’s announcement on Thursday came more than three years after his predecessor, Michael Mukasey, appointed justice department lawyer John Durham to investigate a report that videotapes of CIA-led
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