Oriana Fallaci at the Brooklyn Bridge

[Michael Ledeen remembers his friend Oriana Fallaci.]

Yeah, we knew she was sick, we’d known it for a long time, but we somehow figured she’d overwhelm it, that the combination of cigarettes and her own abundant bile would drive out the “alien,” just as she overwhelmed Khomeini, Kissinger, Qadaffi and Carillo. So it was a shock to hear she’d left.