But the guest said in the last year or two he began talking more about Islam and "lost his way" in a struggle with financial problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The cause,says Abbas, is the misinterpretation of the concept of jihad, or the struggle for Islam, by radical leaders and many clerics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21