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Fewer than ten special force rs we were there at the border. a smaller group stayed behind guarding vehicles. it was near dusk when an enemy force attacked the u.s. green berets. firing machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. took 30 minutes for french air support to arrive on scene. french helicopters evacuated the causalities and recovered the american dead, but sergeant david johnson was separated from the group during the attack. aircraft flying overhead picked up signal from cell phone, but it grew faint as they were searching. more than 100 special forces descended to join the search...

Delays, too many people seem more interested in what they perceive to be civil rights of those who killed innocent americans but we are going to persevere. the trials will go ahead and we owe it to those who died and their families and we also have to send a signal to the world we won't be intimidated by political correctness or islamist terrorism. >> shannon: how do you think we're doing in the fight against terrorism moving forward, the threats bubbling out there constantly morphing and spreading to new frontiers? >> back on 9/11 you are talking about one enemy force, al qaeda in a few caves...

Boarding. sthal a fair summary of the conflict? >> yes, senator, i believe it is. >> there were people in the bush administration that did not want to go down the road that water boarding was torture. that was not the view of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants in a time of war in terms of practices we can employ in terms of interrogation standards, is that correct? >> yes. >> it also tried to come up with a system of judicial review. i was in the camp that we're at war, and in past wars you don't give enemy prisoner...

Post-waterboarding. is that a fair summary of the conflict? >> yes, senator, i believe it is. >> there were people in the bush administration that did not want to go down the road that waterboarding was torture. that was not the view of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day, the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants at a time of war in terms of for practices we can employ in terms of interrogation standards. is that correct? >> yes. >> and it also tried to come up with a system of judicial review. i was in the camp that we're at war and in past wars, you don't...

Member of the enemy force, there is no concept in military law or the law of war that you have to release them in an arbitrary date because that would make no sense. so, all i am saying is that i think you're on solid ground. and beside an american citizen being a combatant is the history of the law of war. and i am willing to work with my colleagues to make sure indefinite detention is reasonably applied and we can find due process rights that don't exist in traditional war because this is a war without end. when do you think this war will be over? do you think we'll know when it's over? >> i...