Eric Holder opens CIA detainee death inquiry

The US is to open criminal investigation into the deaths of two CIA detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003.

Gul Rahman died in November 2002 at a CIA jail 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 inquiry into treatment of detainees.

But he said the probes into 101 cases since the 9/11 attacks would lead to no further prosecutions.

Mr Holder’s declaration 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 interrogations of prisoners were destroyed.

In August 2009, Mr Holder expanded that investigation to covered allegations of mistreatment of detainees in CIA custody.