Do terrorists read?

One of my first thoughts after the 9/11 attacks was about how they resembled the actions in one of Tom Clancy's books. In one of his books an airliner was used as a weapon. In the book, the plane was crashed into the capitol building, but it was close enough to be weird. In the same book, two of his characters use lasers to blind pilots causing planes to crash. Now comes this: Might terrorists use laser beams on pilots? I wonder what Tom thinks about this? I know I would be slighty freaked out, and pissed as hell.