Fiction and reality-Bin Laden's death and a writer's imagination

Everyone is reading and reacting on the taking out of this person.

The longer I have been reading and enjoying the various titles of Tom Clancy, the more do I ask myself: does Clancy shape the future, or did the events follow his imagination?

Let us start with the heinous 9/11.

Airplanes smashing themselves in buildings.

In the last pages of his novel DEBT OF HONOR (written in 1994) an embittered Japanese Jumbo jet pilot, who has lost his son and his brother in the short war between Japan and the US, dives with his huge plane into the Capitol building, decapitating the whole American political establishment, President included.

In EXECUTIVE ORDERS (1996) the US President, Jack Ryan, during a television broadcast press conference, shows the destruction of the Iranian (fictitious) ruler Daryaei, who had previoulsy unleashed biological attacks on the US soil.

The arch-enemy is killed in a "live feed" missile attack, with the help of two special forces soldiers illuminating his house as target with laser beams.

Enough resemblance???

Does it mean that terrorists duly read political thrillers or that writers creep in the mind of these people, perhaps with suggestions by friends working in the intelligence services?

As a matter of fact, nowadays we live in a world where this kind of news very much resembles what we just like to read sitting on a beach.