To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (193179 ) 10/17/2001 5:10:08 PM From: Thomas A Watson Respond to of 769667 Olson's 'Final Days' Rockets to Number One With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Olson's 'Final Days' Rockets to Number One Barbara Olson's book "The Final Days," which, as the book jacket notes, covers "the last desperate abuses of power by the Clinton White House," is now the number one best selling book in the nation, according to the online book vendor giant Amazon.com. Just days after she finished the book, Olson died in Osama bin Laden's terrorist attacks on the U.S. while trying to alert Justice Department officials via cell her phone that her plane had been hijacked. The number one triumph is particularly significant, since her death torpedoed plans by "Final Days" publisher Regnery to launch the book with a heavy promotional tour by Olson herself. In one particulary poignant chapter of "Final Days," Olson railed against Clinton's "use of his constitutional power to free the FALN terrorists" who had ravaged New York and Washington with bombing attacks in the 1970s and 80s. The FALN pardons "sent a signal," she said, to international terrorists like Osama bin Laden, who mastermined the attacks that would kill her just weeks after she wrote these words: "As many of (Clinton's) cabinet had repeatedly stated, terrorism, both foreign and domestic, was the nation's primary security anxiety. Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden." Get your copy of Barbara Olson's "The Final Days" at an unbeatable price at the NewsMax.com bookstore.newsmaxstore.com tom watson tosiwmee