remember saying i guess we start the war from here. chris: o'neill followed first assault time. >> gunfight, and explosions, they killed two terrorists, i walked -- it was so fast. chris: they were inside of the house, main house, and you don't know what is going on. how tough was that? >> the longest 20 minutes of my life, i think when the team entered main house itself, that there suddenly came silence. >> you are on the stairway from second to third floor, a point man in front of you. >> going up the stairs it was straight a curtain. i think it was -- like a green curtain like a rug someone hung. >> the sales figured there were suicide bombers. >> i thought this is what it is like to blow up.