the authority to hold these five at guantanamo bay as enemy which rents. there will come a point in time where the armed conflicts we are engaged with with the taliban and al qaeda and their associates come to an end. at that point the law of war rationale for continuing to hold these unprivileged belligerents would end unless there were some other basis for continuing to hold them such as prosecution. >> not just the war in afghanistan, but the broader balance defined. >> a further point i would make is i'm not aware of any determination as yet that with the sensation of the current combat mission that the end of this year the armed conflicts are determined to be over such it would trigger the