A transatlantic 9/11

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Let's assume that a slightly better funded, organized, and lucky Al-Quaeda manages to let the third plane hit the White House, killing VP Cheney and to attack America, Europe, and India at the same time: a series of bomb blasts in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, and Mumbai kill about 2500 Europeans and 500 Indians.

With Cheney gone, a direct attack on the US government, on Western Europe, and on India, how would the reaction to 9/11 go ? Would we see major NATO-wide and/or Indian intervention in Afghanistan ? How would Pakistan react ? Could the war against the Taliban spill over to Pakistain from the start ? Would the Iraq War be butterflied away, or would we see a major European (and Indian) committment in it ? How would Iran, China, and Russia react ?
 
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