Yes, Guantanamo Bay is open for business and it should remain open despite calls from the weak-kneed Europeans, John McCain, Barack Hussein Obama and his Leftist ilk would provide the same rights in the form of Habeas Corpus to terrorists as average, law abiding American citizens.

Do we really want terrorists, or “alleged terrorists” called detainees or enemy combatants on American soil or in US courts? I say no, hell no! These people have the right to appear in front of military tribunals and have their cases heard. They have the right to an attorney, they don’t have a right to the criminal courts system that real citizens have access to.

More than one “enemy combatant/detainee” has been released from Guantanamo Bay and gone back to the battlefield, or in most cases the local market, to blow themselves up or set explosives to kill American troops.

In Boumediene v. Bush is the recent Supreme Court decision that gave Guantanamo detainees the constitutional right to challenge, in habeas corpus proceedings, whether they were properly classified by the military as enemy combatants.

Debra Burlingame lost her brother in the 9/11 attacks; he was the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon. Ms. Burlington writes in the Wall Street Journal:

Al-Ajmi, a 29-year-old Kuwaiti, blew himself up in one of several coordinated suicide attacks on Iraqi security forces in Mosul this year. Originally reported to have participated in an April attack that killed six Iraqi policemen, a recent martyrdom video published on a password-protected al Qaeda Web site indicates that Al-Ajmi carried out the March 23 attack on an Iraqi army compound in Mosul. (See Video) In that attack, an armored truck loaded with an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pounds of explosives rammed through a fortified gate, overturned vehicles in its path and exploded in the center of the compound. The huge blast ripped the façade off three apartment buildings being used as barracks, killing 13 soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army division and seriously wounding 42 others. (LC Emphasis)

This isn’t the beginning or end of this story. While at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Juheiman al-Kuwaiti, the name this terrorist sometimes used, wrote a poem entitled “To My Captive Lawyer, Miranda,” which was cited in the SCOTUS case by Justice Antonin Scalia and in a web cast production and “Guantanamo teach-in” broadcast live to 400 colleges and law schools across the country and abroad.

Captive Miranda, Lord knows I have not given a thought to the paperwork you sent me.

Let me tell you, Captive, that our release is not in the hands of the lawyers or the hands of America. Our release is in the hands of He who created us.

Participating in the web cast charade were lead attorneys pushing for detainee rights and others who boasted about diversity. One of Al-Ajmi’s lawyers gave a presentation about detainee treatment entitled, “Insults to Religion”, writes Ms. Burlingame.

Leftist organizations financed by George Soros such as Think Progress conveniently misquote Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion and defend the terrorists. Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal independently reports the facts on the Inman bombing and Al-Ajmi.

A list of released Guantanamo Bay prisoners who lived to kill another day is disputed by the Leftists who help promote that these killers are “tortured”, which is part of the al-Qaeda handbook on what to do when captured.

Marc Falkoff, a former Covington & Burling attorney-turned-law-professor who represents several detainees insists on describing Al-Ajmi’s verse as a “love poem to his lawyer.”

Miranda, antelope, I am madly in love with captive Roman gazelles.

I pledge that if I ever see you outside this jail, I shall capture you and take you in a starry night.

Ms. Burlingame writes that Al-Ajmi was merely mocking his lawyer and the US legal system.

“Miranda” is more than a fanciful female name. It is also the name of another infamous prisoner — Ernesto Miranda, the career criminal and itinerant sex offender whose 1966 landmark legal case resulted in the “Miranda rule,” requiring law enforcement officers to inform criminal suspects in custody of their right to remain silent and their right to an attorney during questioning.

It is easy to imagine the detainees’ attorneys, upon first arriving at Guantanamo in 2004, earnestly explaining to their incredulous clients how the Miranda warning works. Incredulous, because detainees would certainly grasp that extending the full array of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to unlawful enemy combatants would have a devastating effect on vital intelligence-gathering efforts. Indeed, lawyers have already become part of the al Qaeda tool kit. When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was apprehended in Pakistan in 2003 and handed over to the U.S., he reportedly told his initial interrogators, “I’ll talk to you guys when you take me to New York and I can see my lawyer.”

Miranda, what can I say? The heart is incarcerated in prisons of injustice, tortured and deprived, targeted with sharp, poisoned arrows by the hands of oppressors who have no mercy. Tell the mothers about their sons, the prisoners, brothers in bondage . . . they shall walk home.

It seems relatives or the terrorists and officials in the Middle East have a more objective view of the terrorists than bleeding heart Liberals.

“I believe the U.S. State Department knows the prisoners well, their way of thinking, and their plans after being released from prison,” wrote Ali Ahmad Al-Baghli, Kuwait’s former Minister of Oil, in the Arab Times after news of Al-Ajmi’s suicide attack broke. He specifically criticized the outspoken leader of the Kuwaiti detainee families committee, Khalid Al-Odah, whose son remains at Guantanamo. Al-Odah hired a Washington, D.C., public-relations firm to “humanize” the detainees with sympathetic press.

“We cannot romanticize them into fallen heroes of Western neo-imperialism,” wrote Shamael Al-Sharikh, a columnist for the Kuwaiti Times, in an article advocating that Guantanamo stay open, “because we are as much potential victims of terrorist attacks as [Americans] are.”

Ms. Burlingame points out Attorney General Michael Mukasey said in a speech earlier this month at the American Enterprise Institute, the Boumediene decision was vague on every detail but one. The ruling said that for habeas review to mean anything, the court must have the power to release.

“What do we do with a graduate of al Qaeda training camps who hasn’t yet committed an act of violence? What do we do if no country will take him? If Congress doesn’t intervene, the most difficult detainee cases may end up being administered by federal judges who are dismissive of concerns about enemy combatants returning to the battlefield.”

The anti-American Left could care less about Homeland Security, they wish to appease the terrorists and have a nice image around the world where leaders won’t fight alongside US Troops but don’t mind having them defend the world against terrorism. Indeed!