Fiction Becomes Fact

Authors sometimes set forth novels that become remarkably prescient.

Recently it was revealed that, the result of investigations conducted over roughly the last year, Saudi Arabian authorities foiled a massive plot against the kingdom:

Apr 27, 10:20 AM (ET)
By ABDULLAH SHIHRI
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Police arrested 172 Islamic militants, some of whom had trained abroad as pilots so they could fly aircraft in attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil fields, the Interior Ministry said Friday. A spokesman said all that remained in the plot "was to set the zero hour."

The ministry issued a statement saying the detainees were planning to carry out suicide atttacks against "public figures, oil facilities, refineries and military zones" -some of which were outside the kingdom.

The ministry did not say the militants would fly aircraft into oil refineries, as the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers flew planes into buildings in New York and Washington, but it said in a statement that some detainees had been "sent to other countries to study flying in preparation for using them to carry out terrorist attacks inside the kingdom."

From the 2005 Oliver North book entitled "The Assassins":

In this book, terrorists manage to take down the Saudi kingdom via a series of attacks against the royalty as well as the oil fields themselves in order to render America powerless.

Further, from the AP story:

The al-Qaida terror group, whose leader Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, has called for attacks on the kingdom's oil facilities as a means of crippling both the kingdom's economy and hurting the West, which he accuses of paying too little for Arab oil.

Fiction becomes reality.

Further, just as an historical note, two American authors envisioned terrorists flying airplanes, utilized as weapons, into primary US government buildings in DC.

First, Tom Clancy's 1994 book entitled "Debt Of Honor" envisions a JAL 747 flying into and striking the US Capitol.

Next, Dan Brown's 1995 novel, "Storming Heaven," has Henri Cazaux aiming his heavy 747 at the White House.

I've listened to Air America a few times, when they've been solvent and on the air in my market, and many of them (to include Randi Rhodes) are of the opinion that the GOP and the Mad Bush Conglomerate working at the behest of Haliburton are merely fright-peddling in order to sell more military orders, bloat the pocketbooks of military/corporate America, enslave the poor into soldierhood (though it's a complete volunteer army and already proven that middle class soldiers clearly outnumber "poor" soldiers), abrogate the rights of Americans and turn the country into a fascist, goose-stepping state.

Conspiracy? Not. There is a saying about Hells Angels that is equally applicable to the LAPD via Rodney King and the Power Brokers of the United States: "two Hells Angels can keep a secret when one is dead."

Make no mistake, Defeat-o-crats: the terrorists are here, in sleeper cells in the United States. Your good friend, George Tenet, says so. It is a wonder that we have not yet experienced our own spate of Homicide Bombers at bus stops, shopping malls, sporting events and movie theatres.

I predict: we shall see precisely this.

There is a reason we fight. I fear that, due to our national complacency, we won't believe we are actual targets, that people actually want to kill us, that 9-11 wasn't some simple one-time fluke, until it happens once again. It will take more burned, mangled, eviscerated, exsanguinated and avulsed bodies for this nation to wake up.

As I am occasionally wont to say: "yes, we are that stupid."

BZ