http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001298
BY JAMES TARANTO
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:10 p.m. EDT

The Boston Herald reports that one of the Sept. 11 hijackers had a visit from a prostitute in a Chestnut Hill, Mass., hotel room on Sept. 9. The paper quotes an unnamed driver for a pair of local "escort" services–including one service that advertises escorts "for the most discriminating of gentlemen and their most important occasion"–as saying that the escort, a blond woman in her early 20s, had a 20-minute tryst in the hotel room with one of the hijackers and was paid $180 in cash. "The FBI has interviewed the driver and the call girl and has seized records from the two escort services, the driver said. The woman, shaken by her sudden involvement in the international probe, has hired a lawyer, he added."

The newspaper notes that this "is just the latest link between the Koran-toting killers and America’s seedy sex scene":

In Florida, several of the hijackers–including reputed ringleader Mohamed Atta–spent $200 to $300 each on lap dances in the Pink Pony strip club. . . .

And in Las Vegas, at least six of the hijackers spent time living it up on the Strip on various occasions between May and August. Marwan Al-Shehhi, who was aboard the second plane that slammed into the World Trade Center, frequently got lap dances at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret where he had a reputation as a lousy tipper, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

FBI agents have also reportedly questioned the owners of Nardone’s Go-Go Bar in Elizabeth, N.J. Several of the terrorists spent time in nearby Paterson and Newark and reportedly patronized the club.