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These aren't predictions, these are random statements. Let's look 1 at a time:
1. Question: Will we catch Osama Bin Laden or is he already dead?
Regardless of the answer this one is largely unverifiable, especially when one takes the "go into other years" proviso. At some point we're going to kill Osama (if we haven't already).
2. Question: Will there be any proof of that, so that we, the American people, will know he is dead?
Just in case here's an "out". Now, unless OBL is still walking around 20 years from now, and verifiably so, her "prediction" is garaunteed to be "right".
3. Question: Is Saddam Hussein harboring him (Osama Bin Laden) right now?
Yet another completely unverifable question. So in our first 3 questions we have 2 that are impossible to verify and one that provides cover. My what a daring prognosticator.
4. Question: Do you see any assassination of World Leaders in the near future?
Hmm, let's see. The western world is at war with terrorism, the bloodshed in Israel has been going on since Sept 2000 pretty much non-stop. Gosh you think maybe some world leaders are gonna get popped? Or at least attempts? Just to make sure she includes President Bush who was considered a target of 9-11. This is a "prediction" that's on par with saying the Yankees are going to contend for the Series. NEXT!
5. Question: Is there any way we can warn our President ?
Umm yeah, send him this article. This isn't even a call for a prediction.
6. Question: What do you see for the economy of America for the year 2002?
Gee I don't know. Market analysts have been saying the market was over valued since the DOW was around 4000, there's still plenty of blood to be let in the dot-coms, and the whole Enron thing hasn't played out yet (at least at the beginning of the year it hadn't). I predict the economy is going to suck hairy donkey parts, God has blessed me with this gift you see, I call it "reading the newspaper".
7. Question: Could that (blasting apart every American city) ever be possible?
Ever see the movie Atomic Cafe? It's BEEN possible for a very long time, still is too.
8. Question: Do you see any upheavals in the stock market or a recession?
Wait, isn't this question 6 all over again? Sure is.
9. Question: Do you see any major natural disasters in the year 2002?
This is my favorite, and your too apparently since you bolded part of the answer. Can't remember the last year there wasn't a major disaster of some form, but lets look at the answers:
A - Mudslides in CA... OK a little 70s retro but they just keep building houses on the shores so what the heck. Too bad the rainy season is done, oh well better luck next year.
B - Natural disaster "around the area of Costa Rica", let's see Costa Rica is in an area that suffers from earthquakes, one or two volcanos, and mudslides. Good chance something bad will happen arond there. Of course if you expand your definition of "around the area" you get to hurricane alley, which amusingly enough is answer C.
C - Hurricanes on the east coast... gee you think? I think we got to K, that would be 11, blowing the doors off her "prediction" of 6. Unfortunately the east coast didn't get to seriously hose.
10. Question: Will the Islamic religion become the number one religion?
Gee let's see, some estimates put Islam at nearly 1/5 of the entire worlds population. Meanwhile the primary Christian countries aren't breeding... even Pat Buchanan figured this math out. Hardly a 2002 prediction though.
11. Question: Will America be attacked again by any terrorist activity?
Gosh this is a hard one... hmm, how about YES. We're target numero two. As for her "specifics" baseball season is over and LA has no football teams, there goes the stadium attack. Oh but maybe they prevented it and we never found out. It's been a while since we visited the land of unverifiable-half-truths, why not swing by. As for the bomb in Minnesota, I think that's a veiled reference to Jesse Ventura's next book, garaunteed not to be a best seller.
12. Question: Do you feel that our borders are protected adequately.
We have one of the longest borders in the world, much of it on really nasty terrain, most of the rest is coastal. Then there's the 10,000 flights a day. It's not physically possible to adequately protect our border.
13. Question: Will there be more hijackings?
Hijacking has been a very popular form of terrorism, certainly there will be attempts, and where there are attempts there's the chance of success.

As with so many other "psychics" Ms Baron's predictions are a large collection of painfully obvious trend guessing and completely unverifiable garbage. And yet millions of suckers everywhere will marvel at her accuracy. Once again I'm saddened that my mother raised me with to high a moral standard to rip people off, sure seems to be a lucrative "profession".