US rejected Polish call for help in CIA Prison lawsuit.

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[quote]WARSAW — Poland's call for help in a probe of claims it hosted a US "black site", where suspected Al-Qaeda members were allegedly tortured, was rejected by Washington, an official document showed Tuesday.
The US justice department turned down the request in October 2009, the Polish prosecutor's office said in a letter to Poland's branch of the Helsinki Foundation, an international human rights group which is monitoring the probe.
"US authorities said that they considered the matter closed," the prosecutor's office said in a letter dated December 15, released by the Helsinki Foundation on Tuesday.
Polish prosecutors launched an investigation in August 2008 into allegations that Poland had allowed the CIA -- the US intelligence service -- to operate a lock-up on its soil.
They made their request for US legal cooperation in March 2009, the letter showed.
The Polish government has repeatedly rejected the claims, which have been made by human rights groups, lawyers of the purported victims, a Council of Europe investigation as well as in media reports.
But Polish campaigners said in July that they had obtained official records about seven CIA planes -- five of them carrying passengers -- which landed in 2002 and 2003 at Szymany, a Polish military base in northeast Poland.
Alleged to have been among the detainees was Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, charged with masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
In a key legal step this October, another alleged detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was granted the formal status of a victim by Polish prosecutors.
Al-Nashiri, suspected by Washington of plotting the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 sailors, is currently being held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since September.
Two weeks ago, lawyers for another Guantanamo inmate, Abu Zubaydah, asked for his case to be folded into the Polish probe.
Zubaydah, a Palestinian, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. US authorities have considered him the number three in Al-Qaeda's hierarchy, and a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden.[/quote]

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