WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a lawsuit by an American civilian translator who says he was thrown in prison in Iraq for nine months without explanation by U.S. officials.

The translator, whose real name does not appear in the lawsuit, is trying to hold former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally liable for the translator’s alleged mistreatment while he was detained at the U.S. military’s Camp Cropper.

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