a different 1990's

[Straha]

1-5 March 1991: US leaders meet with Arabian leaders on invading Iraq to remove Saddam, initially the Arabians reject it, after some arm twisting and wheeling and dealing the US is able to convince Arabian leaders Saddam will be a threat unless he is removed.

7 March 1991: Members of MI6 and the CIA meet with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq to gain Kurdish rebel support. President Bush promises three Iraqi provinces (Dahuk, Arbil and As Sulaymaniyah) will be severed from a defeated Iraq and formed into the independent Republic of Kurdistan, with several million dollars of aid. The Kurdish leaders only agree if the US and UK can guarantee Kurdistan's sovereignty, the British and US oblige.

9 March 1991: Turkey is outraged that the US and UK will allow a Kurdish state to be formed and threaten to pull out of the war. President Bush offers to meet with the Turkish Prime Minister in Washington, DC, after a short debate, Bush is able to appease the Prime Minister without going back against the Kurds.

10 March, 1991: Allied troops begin to pour into Iraq from Saudi Arabia and Turkey/Kurdistan. Resistance from the Iraqi Army is low, but harder fought than in Kuwait. The Iraqi forces continue to surrendor in drones.

25 March 1991: Iraqi prisoners of war begin making offers to the allied forces. Many want to join the allies in the liberation of Iraq from Saddam's tyranny. The allies are at first reluctant, but the idea is welcomed by Arabian leaders who find it fitting the Iraqi army leads the war effort against Saddam. Thousands join the Iraqi Liberation Army (ILA) and are attached to allied units on the front.

5 April 1991: Saddam Hussein is betrayed by several of his aides and turned over to a French division. Saddam is flown to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he will await a UN trial for warcrimes.

9 April 1991: Saddam's loyalist surrendor to the allies and the ILA marking an ending to the Persian Gulf War.

11 April 1991: The Republic of Kurdistan declares independence from Iraq, much to the distaste of Turkey, the capital is set up in Arbil. Millions of Kurds from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey begin to migrate to the new Kurdish Republic. Jalal Jaf is elected Prime Minister several days later, a position he holds until his death in 2001.

14 April 1991: Several Iraqi political factions meet in Baghdad to discuss the future of Iraq, including Prince Shariff Ali Bin Hussein, a descendant of the royal family who wishes to re-install the monarchy. [The Prince had encouraged the Iraqi people to support the allies was welcomed by millions of cheering Iraqi civilians.] An election is scheduled for 21 April.

21 April 1991: Shariff Ali bin Hussein wins the Iraqi election in a landslide, and assumes power from the UN three days later in a ceremony in Baghdad, when the old Iraqi flag of Saddam's era is pulled down and the flag of the Kingdom of Iraq (the same as it was in the 50s) is flown in its place. The new King promises to work with the UN and NATO to build a lasting peace for Iraq and the Middle East.

4 July 1991: American troops returning home from the Gulf are hailed at an Independence Day parade in Washington. In the war over 500 American Soldiers lost their lives with 1000 more being wounded, {amongst the wounded was a Soldier named Timothy McVeigh (Paralyzed from the waist down), McVeigh spends most of the next 5 years in a wheel chair at the VA Hospital, becoming a devoted Christian and a hero in his community).

31 July 1991: The US begins performing the logistics to close its bases in Saudia Arabia, informing the Saudi government the base should be closed by March 1992. The only US troops in the Middle East are in Turkey and Iraq (where they are part of a joint UN team to keep peace).

19-21 August 1991: The US and NATO's war against Iraq helped the leaders of the coup against Gorbachev recruit several top military leaders to support them. Boris Yeltsin and other opposition leaders were assassinated (Yeltsin was shot as he stood on a tank), Martial Law was declared throughout the Soviet Union. Fearing the new Soviet regime would try to re-occupy Eastern Europe, President Bush warned the Soviet Union against entering nations that had cast them out (Germany, Hungary, Czeckoslovakia, and Poland). The Soviet Union begun reproachments with China and Yugoslavia. (A Chinese style economy was installed in 1992, the Soviet and Chinese states are very similiar in the 90s)

September 1991: All plans of US military downsizing are cancelled by Congress. Several bases are scheduled to reopen by 1994.

December 1991: Fidel Castro leaves Cuba for Moscow in hopes of receiving an aid package from the new Soviet leadership. The world is shocked when his plane crashes on the runway, a UN investigation stated weather was the problem for the crash. Castro's body was flown back to Havanna where thousands mourned. A pro-Castro government resumed power, in spite of opposition from the United States.

 

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7 January 1992: As the United States begins to prepare for the elections Vice President Quayle is shot in the back. His would be assassin was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and is sentenced to life in prison in spite of public protests. Quayle is forced to resign, George Bush nominates Bob Dole, a Senator from Kansas as his Vice President.

13 January 1992: Conflict grips Turkey as Kurdish sepratists wish to join Kurdistan. The Turks reply by invading the Kurd Republic, the US and UK both condemn Turkey for the invasion. Turkey assures both powers, it will not attempt to annex the newfound country, but has invaded to find Kurdish terrorists. The Turks are met with fierce resistance, their advance is halted before it reaches Arbil. Iran and the USSR sell weapons to the Kurds in their war against Turkey.

10 February 1992: Massive protests begin in Havanna, without Castro, the Communist government appears weak and destined to crumple. Fighting breaks out among protesters and the military. After a couple of days, several in the Cuban military begin to defect. The Carribean island erupts in Civil War.

7 March 1992: US forces leave their bases in Saudi Arabia, majority returning to their previous assignments, with some cycling into Iraq.

April 1992: Fighting ends in Yugoslavia, as Soviet supplied Yugoslavian troops crush the Croat and Sloven sepratists. Democratic Presidential Candidate Paul Tsongas criticises Bush for not supporting the Rebels against communist forces.

2 June 1992: The UN accepted the Soviet offer to send troops into Somalia to end the conflict, in spite of US protests. Soviet troops arrived in early July with UN supplied food, and an overwhelming military presence.

7 June 1992: President Bush pressured the UN to allow the US to intervene in the Cuban Civil War, stating US intrests were being threatened. The Soviet Union protests but does little more than saber rattling. US Marines are dispatched to Cuba to put down the Civil War.

19 August 1992: USMC enforces a cease fire in Cuba, the conflict cost the lives of 73 Marines, with an additional 150 being wounded. The UN agrees to supervise an election to be held on 1 September. The two major nominees come from the Communist Party and the Democratic Party.

1 September 1992: The pro-American Democratic Party wins the Cuban elections, Communists accuse the US of fixing the elections. Small outbursts of violence are put down by US forces.

29 Ocotber 1992: The USSR boasts its victory in Somalia, a puppet Soviet style government is installed Mogadishu. The Somalian action cost the lives of 1,500 Soviet troops with 4,000 more being wounded. The UN pledges to end the starvation of the Somali citizens. The Soviet Union and the Somali communist government announce a defense treaty for the USSR to build a Naval-Air base along the Somalian coast.

November 1992: The US elections are held, President Bush rides the military victories in Iraq and Cuba to a second term over Democrat Paul Tsongas (Tsognas tries to accuse Bush of doing nothing to stop the 1991 Soviet Coup), many democrats blame Ross Perot for Tsongas' defeat, feeling votes gone to Perot would have gone to Tsongas instead.

December 1992: Saddam Hussein begins his trial in Riyadh. He blames the US, Soviet Union and everybody else (especially Israel) for his actions. The UN convicts Saddam of war crimes and sentences him to death via Firing Squad, sometime in 1993

 

[Straha]

January 1993: The European Community continued efforts toward unity in spite of the lingering Cold War, by adopting a single market.

February 1993: A car bomb explodes at the World Trade Center in New York City, 6 people are killed and hundreds injured. President Bush calls terrorism the evil that must stop.

17 April 1993: In a visit to Iraq President Bush is killed when a suicide bomber explodes next to his vehicle. The world is shocked, an investigation showed the assassin to be a Saddam loyalist, and a former member of the Black Guard. CIA traces his whereabouts to Libya and a man named Osama Bin Laden. Vice President Dole is sworn in as the 42d President of the United States April 18.

21 April 1993: George Bush's body is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetary with the same cermony given to the late JFK.

23 April 1993: The US demands Qaddafi hand over Bin Laden. Qadaffi refuses stating he would not tolerate Bin Laden operating terrorist cells in his country, and any connection to Osama and the presidents assassin is only circumstancial. Libya prepare's for US invasion, and keeps an eye on spyplane fly overs.

1 May 1993: USAF B-2s and F-117's bomb Libyan military positions at night. US Special Forces are tipped off to Qaddafi's bunker by a spy. The Libyan leader is taken captive by the USSF and taken to face trials in the Hague. The operation runs particularly smooth, at sunrise the military is still in a state of confusion and Qaddafi is in American hands, with an unknown amount of paratroopers throughout Libya, the will to fight quickly fades and the resistance is minimal. The fate of Bin Laden is unknown, military experts believe he was killed, pessimists say he escaped to Egypt and plots his revenge.

5 May 1993: Anti-Qaddafi faction's meet under NATO supervision in Tripoli. NATO makes it a policy not to get involved in forming the new government. Too the horror of many American's the leading party mirror's the ruling party of Iran in the 1980's. The new Libyan government promises peace with the US, Europe, their Arabian neighbors and Israel, one of the first Arabian nations to extend relations to Israel. (The US media writes it as Libya playing up to the US and Europe)

June 1993: Thousands protest in Ankara, as thousands of bodybags return to Turkey with little to show for it. Turkey's war with Kurdistan is compared to the Soviets war with Afghanistan. The Turkish government blames Iran and the USSR for selling weapons to the Kurds.

July 1993: Cuba is reaping the benefits of western tourism, but illegal gambling and prostitution run rampant. The government tries to crack down on both institutions with little success. Several US businessmen propose ideas for resorts with legal gambling. Other business ideas include a 6 Flags Theme Park and a NASCAR track (Dale Earnhardt, Davey Allison and other stars meet with the Cuban President on July 12) ((Allisons trip to Cuba spared his life, as he was injured in a helicopter crash on Jul 12, dying the next day))

September 1993: In his last great speech Ronald Reagon states "The Battle against Communism in Europe is all but won. The War now expands to Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. If it is not contained it will spread to Central and South America and into our backyards."

November 1993: With the Warsaw Pact dead, the Soviet Union hopes to build a new alliance of Communist nations. A meeting in Leningrad hosts all the Communist countries, with the notable absense of Vietnam (after the Soviet Rapproachment with China, Vietnam's relations have been strained). The Communist League is formed as the predecessor to the Warsaw Pact.

 

[Xen]

This is almost word for word of the A different 1990's timeline I wrote on the old board. Many things here are from that thread, like Castro being killed in a plane crash in 1994, McVeigh being shot and becoming a community leader, etc,etc.