While Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) seeks to close Guantanamo Bay down and move the Taliban and Al Qaida terrorists into the United States, Debra Burlingham writes in the Opinion Journal of the maneuvering undertaken by ‘civil rights’ groups aiming to declare those detained victims.

He was the first American to die in what some have called “the real war.” Johnny “Mike” Spann, the 32-year-old CIA paramilitary commando, was interrogating prisoners in an open courtyard at the Qala-I-Jangi fortress in Afghanistan when the uprising of 538 hard-core Taliban and al Qaeda fighters began. Spann emptied his rifle, then his sidearm, then fought hand-to-hand as he was swarmed by raging prisoners screaming “Allahu akbar!”

The bloody siege by Northern Alliance and U.S. forces went on for several days, only ending when 86 of the remaining jihadi fighters were smoked out of a basement where they had retreated and where they murdered a Red Cross worker who had gone in to check on their condition. Spann, a former Marine, is credited with saving the lives of countless Alliance fighters and Afghan civilians by standing and firing as they ran for cover. His beaten and booby-trapped body was recovered with two bullet wounds in his head, the angle of trajectory suggesting he had been shot execution style.

One of the committed jihadis who came out of that basement, wounded and unrepentant, was “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, now serving a 20-year sentence in a federal prison. Another who was shot during the uprising and pulled out of the basement along with Lindh was Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi. Today, the 29-year-old is living somewhere in Kuwait, a free man.

The true story of Mr. Mutairi’s journey, from the uprising in Qala-I-Jangi to Guantanamo Bay’s military detention camp to the privileged life of an affluent Kuwaiti citizen, is one that his team of high-priced lawyers and the government of Kuwait doesn’t want you to know. His case reveals a disturbing counterpoint to the false narrative advanced by Gitmo lawyers and human-rights groups–which holds that the Guantanamo Bay detainees are innocent victims of circumstance, swept up in the angry, anti-Muslim fervor that followed the attacks of September 11, then abused and brutally tortured at the hands of the U.S. military.

And indeed this is the exact card that we see played countless times, but of course there are allegations of torture that are ever-present, an Ace of Hearts in the Al Qaida playbook played to grow sympathy for jihadis.  Wait, but if Allah’s will can make an attack successful or unsucessful, wouldn’t Allah also make an alleged jihadi guilty or not guilty even in an Infidel court of law?  Nevermind.

Moran seeks to close Guantanomo Bay to “enhance our reputation to close it down and to apply our system of justice to all of these detainees.”  But those detained are afforded military trials, and they have been afforded those trials.  Many have been released, and many have taken up arms again in the jihad.  In fact, Moran wants military trials on U.S. soil instead of in Cuba, the exact same type of trial that is already in Cuba.  What then would be accomplished by simply moving Khalid Sheikh Muhammad to Virginia or South Carolina?

For one, as Burlingham explains, it would allow skilled legal teams to make a “a mockery of the sacrifices made by true patriots like Mike Spann.”  Who’s up for being neighbors with Khalid Sheikh Muhammad?  Rep. Moran doesn’t seem to mind, even though it would be the first time in the history of the United States where those captured on the field of battle were afforded trials in the United States while the war still wages.

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