9/11 Goes Nuclear: A Collaborative Timeline

Ak-84

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I think you are making the same mistake that American diplomats have made. Pakistan is a Muslim country. It's not an "Arab" country. Most American diplomats in South Asia have copied the approach that worked in the ME, that makes friends with the local strongman. In the ME, everyone owes their position to the strongman. When he goes, everything is up for grabs. In the South Asian context, its the institutions which rule (not necessarily democratic ones). The top man is one who represents the institutions or institution which governs (military, civil service, judiciary business community, social groups). If he goes, then everything else stays and they decide what the next get up it.

If Saddam or Gaddaffi goes, then the policeman and judge, hell even a schoolteacher's position goes with it. In Pakistan (and S Asia generally) the Policeman owes his position to the Police, the Judge to the Judiciary, s/he continue as before. Which is why Pakistan has weathered a multitude of crises which would have sunk ME nations, hell far less sunk Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.

Anatol Lieven mentions this in Pakistan: A Hard Country

ETA: In reply to @Whiteshore
 
November 30, 2001: The US Senate launches an investigation into the Joint Chiefs of Staff for their failure to stop Bush's irrational actions.
 
December 1, 2001: NBC introduces "Budweiser's Hockey Night in America"

December 5, 2001: Muslim fundamentalist rebels proclaim "a Islamic State in the Levant" prompting an attack by Iraq and Russia.
 
December 7,2001: Iraq's dictator Sudan Hussein declares that any Islamic state fighter that surrenders to the Iraqi government shall be given a pardon but if not then they will be treated as traitors to there country and excuted as such declaring "Iraq dose not need nor deserve there hatred they reform or they will no longer be Iraqi citizens".

December 8,2001:
Iraq formally mobilizes its army to crush the Islamic state.
 
November 17, 2001: Josef Ratzinger is elected pope. He chooses the name Benedict XVI
December 12, 2001: Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl dies.
December 25, 2001: Benedict XVI denounces all kind of nuclear weapons and calls for peace in the Middle East
December 29, 2001: The biggest state funeral since the death of Konrad Adenauer takes place. In a driven procession the coffin of Kohl is transported from Berlin to Speyr. After a requiem the coffin is brought to Oggersheim.
January 15, 2002: Dick Cheney and Vladimir Putin meet in Vienna to discuss the war in Syria
 
Most European nations were too occupied with the terror in Europe and Russia and China wanted to contain the situation in Korea and the Middle East.
 
Point of information: If AQ attacks the Vatican, they have to go through Italy to do it, and that invokes NATO (attack on one is an attack on all).
 
January 16,2002
Chancellor of Austria Wolfgang Schüssel dies on the streets of Vienna after a terrorist shoots him strait in the head when he was making a speech condemning the Islamic state and showing solidarity "with all of our brothers that fight this menace".
 
January 18th, 2002: In response to the tragedies abroad, President Cheney announces he is signing an executive order which will bar the immigration of Muslim people into the United States and will call for deportation of anyone of Muslim descent. "In hard times, hard measures must be taken in order to fight terror and preserve freedom.", the President explained during a press conference regarding his choice.

January 19th, 2002: Many neo-Nazis across the United States begin protesting for policies involving the execution/genocide of people of Muslim descent.

January 23rd, 2002: 16 year old Jersey City, New Jersey native Kevin Pager goes on a shooting spree at William L. Dickinson High School, killing 29 Muslim students before ultimately committing suicide. In journals unearthed post-autopsy, it is discovered that the shooting spree was to: "Annihilate sub-human Muslim shit."
 
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If we're going to retaliate with blind rage, we need the POD to be a much worse 9/11. Maybe a few more planes, including one that hits Three Mile Island. Plus several Beslans around the country. That's a lot more plausible than a Bush brain tumor.
 
If we're going to retaliate with blind rage, we need the POD to be a much worse 9/11. Maybe a few more planes, including one that hits Three Mile Island. Plus several Beslans around the country. That's a lot more plausible than a Bush brain tumor.
9/11 did go nuclear ITTL.
 
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