9/11

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As you all know, between September 10 and 11, 2001, the U.S. government managed to dismantle a conspiracy to attack the country with planes that would have left hundreds dead in New York and Washington, but thanks to a series of investigations they were stopped. What if the terrorists had been...

There are many 9/11-related threads on this site, but I don’t think I’ve seen this scenario discussed. First, some background: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09592318.2014.945634?src=recsys&journalCode=fswi20 In the end, the Communist government lost the civil war in the 1990s in...

It was the 11th day of September, in the Year of Our Lord 2001, at 6 o'clock in the morning. 2 men, named Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari had just landed at Logan International Airport from Portland International Jetport in Portland, Maine, via Colgan Air (Owned under the US Airways Express...

On September 11, 2001, UAL175 nearly collided with 3 planes on its way to the World Trade Center, AAL11, DAL2315, and MEP7. United 175 was a Boeing 767 that had 51 passengers, and 9 crew, not including the 5 hijackers aboard. Midex 7 was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 that had 30 passengers and 5...

I had this thought and wondered, if Soviet Union didn't collapse in 1991 as it did in my timeline but instead it survives a bit longer in the 1990's and maybe instead collapses around 2001, which is 10 years later. How would a delayed decade Soviet Union collapse affect our history? You guys...

September 11, 2001, another timeline: Instead of striking at the Pentagon, the hijacked American Airlines flight 77 crashes into the White House - where, thanks to a change in his schedule, President Bush is present, and dies in the attacks. What effects will this on America? President Bush...

We all know that Al Gore won the 2000 Election by an extremely small margin, losing the popular vote to George W. Bush and went on to be defeated by then-Governor Bush and Senator Elizabeth Dole in the 2004 rematch. What would America look like if Bush won in the 2000 election? Would the 9/11...

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While we know if one paid attention to various threads about a world with no 9/11 (with say Bin Laden being dead or the plot being discovered prior to the date) is that a lot of the middle east related issues along with domestic ones would get butterflied away yet I feel it would have far...

Know that there've been plenty of 9/11 threads, with a few of them addressing the question of alternative perpetrators. But no-one's ever explored this possibility before. So then, what if, instead of planning, orchestrating and launching the Tokyo subway sarin attacks, in five coordinated...

A world in shock, the September 11 attacks: Everything was working fine for George Walker Bush ever since the Electroal College of 2000 when he became President. The budget looked fine and most thinks worked out nicely. Today the president was just reading a story to a class of children at the...

"Most people say my Presidency began on October 11th, 2001. They're wrong, and not for the obvious reason. My Presidency began before I was even a candidate. It began in 1999 in the former Soviet Union with a man who just wanted to buy a new dishwasher and washing machine for his family."- The...

Immediately after the events of 9/11, President Bush falls into a state of despair and sorrow, wracked by guilt of "allowing" such a thing to happen. The next day on September the 12th, Bush addresses the nation live on television. In addition to comforting the traumatized US populace and...

Let's say that 9/11 fails. It's been done a lot, which is completely understandable. But what if 9/11 failed only partially? By that I mean the following: The two flights headed for the Twin Towers don't carry out their desired mission. One of the groups of hijackers just misses their flight...

I couldn't think of any other title for the thread. But I just wondered sometimes is that what if Al-Qaeda never did the attacks on 9/11 and instead home-grown domestic terrorists crash two planes into the Twin Towers, a plane into the Pentagon and fail to try to crash a plane into either the...

2001: On a chill January day in Washington D.C, George Walker Bush stepped up to a podium and recited those words that 41 other men had before him. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability...

August 17, 1985: Osama bin Laden, a young Afghan soldier, is killed by Soviet forces during the Soviet-Afghan War. December 12, 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court confirms that Texas Governor George W. Bush had defeated Vice-President Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential Election. September 11, 2001...

During the hijacking, UA flight 175 passed within 300 feet of Delta Air Lines Flight 2315, but what if they had collided? This would have meant that only one plane would have hit the WTC and perhaps the collapse could be averted or occur late enough for evacuation to be nearly complete. How...

What would it take for the United States to enter this WW2-like total war after 9/11? I'll propose a few possibilities: -- Less disastrous Vietnam, less successful Gulf War. This military history no doubt convinced Bush's defense crew that keeping the public distracted from daily military...