February 11th, 2002: Another shooting occurs when hundreds of Muslim-Americans are blazed down in NYC.
A little mean-spirited, don't you think?
Plus if a nuclear attack was initiated against Kabul which there was no evidence Bin Ladin was in the city would of resulted in multiple attacks by muslims in the US and against every embassy company abroad.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.
OOC: This is pretty much an ASB dystopia at this point but it took a life on its own.
Hundreds? Did somebody invent infinite-ammo magazines or something?February 11th, 2002: Another shooting occurs when hundreds of Muslim-Americans are blazed down in NYC.
Stop. This thread needs a permanent slumber.Russian and post-Soviet PoDs
May 25, 2002: Terrorist attacks in Samara and Rostov-na-Donu. Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev took responsibility for themselves.
July 15, 2002: Terrorist attack in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The result was the beginning of mass riots in the capital of Uzbekistan, which threatens to grow into a civil war.
No, someone was using the Negev (it has a 150 round magazine).Hundreds? Did somebody invent infinite-ammo magazines or something?
Stop. This thread needs a permanent slumber.
I can make this non-ASB (at least initially) with a couple of components:
1.
A. The Anthrax attacks are conclusively linked to Al-Queda
B. One of the hijacked planes hits the CDC and causes a release of smallpox to infect Atlanta. Even if it's not released, that's designed to be an offensive biological weapons attack. OTL, smallpox was being worked on during 9/11, including with the scientists having to flee the lab with very hot pox that had just successfully infected a monkey. There was some evidence one or more of the hijackers had scoped the area.
C. Another option would be slamming into 3 Mile Island
D. Poisoning the NYC water supply. OR
E. A backpack nuke somehow ends up in NYC - let's say it's in the basement of the WTC and is set off by a terrorist as the first responders start arriving. Alternately, a completely different individual sets it off in downtown LA or Chicago.
Any of these would trigger the WMD rule - germ=chemical=nuke.
2. Kabul wouldn't be targeted, but Tora Bora sure could/would be.
As it is, it's totally ASB bordering on Bush-bash.
That's why I mentioned Kabul wouldn't be targeted but the military hideout of Tora Bora might be in these circumstances. For Kabul, it'd have to be an eye-for-an-eye such as a nuclear explosion in the Potomac that mega-tsunami's D.C.
Fair enough! So would it be a B-2 taking off from Missouri or an SLBM?