Poland Will Cooperate with EU Probe
Poland's prime minister said Tuesday he sees no reason to reopen an investigation into allegations the CIA operated secret prisons here, but indicated he would cooperate with an EU probe.
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said that his government will not revisit the issue after closing its own investigation last year into allegations that the CIA might have held al-Qaida suspects in this ex-communist country.
"We closed the issue in December and we will not go back to it," Marcinkiewicz said at a news conference in Warsaw in response to a reporter's question.
But he added, "If legislators from Brussels come, they will be received with hospitality."
Allegations the CIA hid and interrogated key al-Qaida suspects at Soviet-era compounds in Eastern Europe were first reported Nov. 2 in The Washington Post.
Human Rights Watch has said it has circumstantial evidence indicating the CIA transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland and Romania.
Both countries have denied the claims, and Poland closed its December probe without releasing any findings.
The EU parliament decided two weeks ago to launch an investigation into the matter, while a separate inquiry is also being conducted by the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog.