>> we brought in specter gunships that can put a bullet on every inch of a football field. >> the amount of ordinance that was dropped in the area over two weeks almost defies belief. the mountains were rearranged. >> reporter: the radio stripped from a dead al qaeda fighter, the americans hear bill bin laden trying to rally his men. >> we listen to him apologizing for having led them to this trap and where they were having air strikes called on them relentlessly. >> reporter: with bin laden in the cross hairs, burnson wants u.s. ground forces sent in to finish the job. >> in the first two or three days of december i would write a message back to washington, recommending the insertion of u.s. forces on the ground. i was looking for 600 to 800