Al-Qaisi v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

LETTOW, Judge.

Plaintiff Firas Abdul Razzaq Al-Qaisi, an Iraqi citizen now residing in the United States as an asylee, seeks millions of dollars in damages for events in Iraq in 2007. He alleges that U.S. forces in Iraq damaged his house, allowed him to be captured and mistreated by a brigade of the Iraqi National Police, and delayed his rescue by U.S. diplomatic personnel. The United States (“the government”)1 has moved to dismiss Mr. Al-*441Qaisi’s complaint under RCFC 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6).

BACKGROUND2

Mr. Al-Qaisi, an attorney in his native Iraq before the outbreak of war, was a…