"...A young woman he knew had come into the bar. She was tall and blonde and she gave him a long, close hug when they greeted each other. She ordered a glass of wine and sat a couple of seats away from us, chatting with a friend. I felt his impatience with our conversation; his body yearned toward her. ..."
Uh huh. Sure. In almost every work of pop fiction these days it is the tall, willowy blonde---never the notorious short, fat brunette of the evening news reports--who is whoring around.
Also it's utterly unbelievable that a rational woman would contact a mohammedan that she had ratted out to the Feds in order to confess ro him. Of course, there's always the possibility this woman is not rational. I know that rationality is frowned upon in certain circles in America these days.
All that being said, I do believe that there are many. many people living in the United States who knew exactly what was going to happen on the eleventh. Some on the street. Some....elsewhere.
Nah, I can believe it, precisely because this woman is *not* rational -- she writes for the Village Voice! Between this and the kid in school in New York who predicted that the Twin Towers would be gone the next week, it sounds like at least some in the Muslim community knew what was going to happen.