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sailors publishing 2004, won an award for naval literature and was recently named by naval history magazine as one of a dozen all time naval classics. his second book, ship of goes, but the cruiser uss houston, was a main selection of history book club and the military to come, and the winner in 2007 at united states maritime literature award. his most recent book, neptune s inferno, publishing 2011, is a major new account of the guadalcanal naval campaign. a former editor at harpercollins and a president of the literary agency, hornfischer literary management, he has handled a number of non-fiction bestsellers including the number one new york times bestseller and colby award winner, flags of our fathers. he will serve as a moderator for this 2012 colby public session. today, he will be speaking about his most recent book, neptune s inferno: the u.s. navy at guadalcanal. it is the untold story of the u.s. navy s bloodiest fight of world war ii. considered, and i quote,
network. that contradicts reported claims by pakistan that he was an out-of-touch figurehead. i want to bring in cnn s reza sayah now in islamabad. res za, te reza, tell us first about bin laden s fixation within america. that was not a unanimous within in al qaeda. was it? reporter: no, it wasn t. it was some al qaeda affiliates in the region. al qaeda affiliates in yemen, algeria, somalia, who didn t necessarily want to attack targets on u.s. soil. they didn t want retaliation in their particular regions where they had grievances with their own governments. but certainly according to u.s. officials, when they looked through these documents they said indeed bin laden was fixated in carrying out another attack on u.s. soil on the scale of 9/11. according to u.s. officials in these documents, bin laden had mark off key dates on the u.s. calendar like the fourth of july, christmas, the 9/11 anniversary. he wanted to attack on these particular dates. the documents also show th