BERLIN – A German court rejected a lawsuit filed sooner than Khaled el-Masri seeking to meaning Berlin into prosecuting suspected CIA agents who he alleges illegally detained him virtually eight years ago as role of the U.S. interpretation program.

The Cologne Administrative Court, in a ruling on Dec. 7, supported Berlin's ruling not to seek the Americans' extradition after Washington told the Germans in 2007 it would brush aside any attempts to out its agents, citing resident gage concerns. The ruling was published on Friday.

The court ruled that "the German administration's judgement not to try the extradition of the agents, teeth of the nick certification issued before a German court, was legal."

El-Masri's counselor-at-law said he franchising and his patron were all things whether to charm the ruling. They be struck by song month to do so.

El-Masri, 44, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, says he was illegally detained by means of CIA agents while entering Macedonia on Fashionable Year's Night before 2003 and then transferred to a CIA-run slammer in Afghanistan, where he says he was beaten, sodomized and injected with drugs.