MONTREAL - The Federal Court of Canada has rejected a suspected terrorist's bid to throw out the government's case against him. Adil Charkaoui, 32, was trying to invalidate the national security certificate the government issued against him under federal immigration law in 2003. He also tried to have parts of the immigration law declared unconstitutional. Critics of the law say it creates a so-called "torture loophole" that opens the possibility security certificate detainees can be sent to countries that use torture as an interrogation method. Federal authorities want the landed immigrant deported to his native Morocco. His supporters say Charkaoui, who has maintained his innocence throughout, faces torture upon his return. Judge Simon Noel ruled Friday that the security certificate was legal and respected the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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