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**FILE** A reputed CIA "black site" prison for terrorism suspects is said to have been located near this airport in Szymany, Poland. Terrorism suspects purportedly were exposed to harsh interrogation methods there. (Associated Press)

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** FILE * The runway and control tower of the airport in Szymany, Poland, is show in 2005. Prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with a closed CIA black site near the secluded airport, in the country's northeast, to which flight logs trace several landings of planes linked to the CIA. (AP Photo, File)

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This Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, file photo shows the control tower of the airport in Szymany, in northeastern Poland. Prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with the closed CIA black site near the secluded Szymany airport in northeast Poland. (AP Photo, File

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Polish police officers arrest the head of the Chechen government in exile Akhmed Zakhayev who is wanted in Russia on terrorism, charges, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Sept.17, 2010. Mr. Zakhayev, who resides in London, came to Poland to attend a World Congress of Chechens. (AP Photo/str)

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A resident of Bogatynia, Poland, uses a rope to get across a fast-flowing but receding river Monday after a bridge collapsed in flash floods that killed at least 11 people and left towns in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany strewn with rubble and coping with badly damaged homes and roads. (Associated Press)

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Resident tosses a bottle with water across the river after a bridge collapsed during flash floods in the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Poles, Czechs and Germans struggled Monday to clean up homes and towns badly damaged as the waters of deadly weekend flooding began to recede. But the swollen rivers pushed northward, and other towns and villages braced for possible high waters. The floods have killed more than 10 people. (AP Photo / Petr David Josek)

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A resident stands next to her destroyed house that collapsed in flash floods that hit the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Poles, Czechs and Germans struggled Monday to clean up homes and towns badly damaged as the waters of deadly weekend flooding began to recede. But the swollen rivers pushed northward, and other towns and villages braced for possible high waters. The floods caused a number of fatalities. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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A woman takes a picture of house that collapsed in flash floods that hit the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Poles, Czechs and Germans struggled Monday to clean up homes and towns badly damaged as the waters of deadly weekend flooding began to recede. But the swollen rivers pushed northward, and other towns and villages braced for possible high waters. The floods caused a number of fatalities. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Aerial view shows the broken wall of the Witka dam near Radomierzyce, Poland near the German boder Sunday Aug. 8, 2010. The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose more than 10 as Poland's interior minister said Sunday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the country. The flooding has struck an area near the borders of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. (AP Photo/ddp/ Jens Schlueter/ddp)

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Agnieszka Radwanska, of Poland, flips her racket after missing a shot against Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, during the Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament in Carlsbad, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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An aerial view shows the reconstructed Old Town with the Royal Castle on right, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The Warsaw Uprising Museum released a 3D film on Wednesday showing the ruins of Warsaw after World War II. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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Nazi guards pose at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. Samuel Kunz, 90, has been charged in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec camp, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943. (AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archive)

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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of the conservative Law and Justice party and twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, meets supporters prior to a pre election rally in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, second left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, third left, applaud as documents are exchanged after the signing of a protocol adjusting a 2008 missile defense agreement to meet its new shape decided by the Obama administration, in Krakow, Poland, on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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A replica of the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") crosses the main entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo)