this seems to fit here - i'm currently reading "Operation Hollywood" by david robb.
(page 131 ff)
"in 1998 the producers of JAG were working on an episode called "Act of Terror", an eerily prescient story about arab terrorists who take a small boat out to an american warship anchored in the persian gulf and blow a hole in its hull with a bomb. the episode aired on october 27, 1998 - two years before 17 sailors were killed when terrorists attacked the USS cole while it was docked at the port of yemen"