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Him? >> translator: they did. the taliban came and sat down with me. i said no, i will not hand him over to you. >> what did they threaten? >> translator: they told me you will die, your brother will die, your cousins will die, your whole family will die. it's not worth it. give us the american. and i said no, i will protect him until the end. sg >> he suffered. his house was burned down and a cousin killed. in afghanistan he went into hiding with his wife and ten children. latrel is hoping to get him a green card so he can settle at least part time in the united states. >> we're a family. >> ...

>> rough, very rough. >> pete burg who directed the movie let him after reading his book. he was shocked by his condition when he went to visit him in his house in texas. >> i went in there and it was almost like living in a shrine. nothing but pictures of his dead brothers and flags and helmets and momentums and pieces from his dead brothers and on the middle of the living room floor was basically the tombstone with the names of all of his brothers that died in that operation, and marcus would sit in that house in that -- in that moment, in that experience, in that gunfight. he was almost liv...

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Taken. >> why do you think you didn't kill him? >> i can't tell you. i don't know why. >> for latrel, mohammed was not a member of the taliban. >> he gave me water and then he rolled me over and seen where i had been shot and i was bleeding real bad. three other guys with him picked me up and started carrying me down to their village. >> seal commanders didn't know what happened to marcus latrel and his three team meats. danny deets was dead and axle son was wounded and separated and mike murphy was killed after making a satellite phone call for help, retired vice admiral joe mcelderry gierp t...

Fighting. [ gunshots ]. >> reporter: this is how the fire fight is portray in a new film called "loan survivor" based on a book marcus la trel wrote. he says the captures the intensity of the battle. the enemy fire was continue use, ak-4 ak-47s, rocket propelled grenades. when the rounds started coming from both sides, it broke the sea seals' position. >> that shelf that i had made, crumbled and fell apart and just like somebody opened up a trap door underneath me and i fell, and i started tumbling, and then i hit mikey, and i busted him right off his little perch he was on. >> reporter: you'r...