Search of dwelling was ‘unconstitutional’, court told

Lawyers for an Algerian man known as “the black flag”, whose surrender is being sought by the US on international terrorism charges, have said he should not be extradited because a search of his dwelling was unconstitutional.

Ali Charaf Damache, 47, who has been living in Ireland for a decade, is wanted in the US to face charges relating to the conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists and to attempted identity theft to facilitate an act of international terrorism.

Counsel for Damache, Mícheál O’Higgins SC, said his client’s surrender should not be granted because of the US government’s reliance of what he called an unconstitutional search of Damache’s dwelling carried out with an invalid warrant.