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"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan known to be under U.S. criminal investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to as many as 14 on Wednesday."

The Army said on Tuesday that in addition to the reported cases of abuse, its Criminal Investigations Division had examined 25 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2002.

Twelve of those were ruled to have resulted from undetermined or natural causes, and one was ruled a justifiable homicide.

Ten of the 25 are still under investigation and two were ruled homicides. One of the homicides resulted in a soldier being dismissed from the Army but not jailed or court-martialed, and the other homicide was referred to the Justice Department because it involved a CIA interrogator, the Army said.

On Wednesday, an intelligence official said that the CIA inspector general is investigating two other deaths involving CIA interrogators. One took place at an Afghan prison near the Pakistan border in June 2003 and involved an independent contractor working for the CIA. The other death occurred at an unspecified location in Iraq and involved a CIA interrogator."

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I wonder how many cases are there in addition to these that no-one has heard or never will hear of.

Dismissal? That's how much you get for homicide nowadays? Talk about a slap on the wrist...

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