AHC: War on Terror starts somewhere else

In our timeline, the War on Terror began in Afghanistan in 2001 and then migrated to Iraq in 2003. So, in a alternate timeline, what would need happen for the War on Terror to start somewhere else, other than Afghanistan or Iraq, and what would that place be?
 
Simplest answer might be to have the 1996 Al Qaeda plot to kill then-President Bill Clinton succeed. He was in Manila for an economic summit, and at the last minute his head of security received chatter that a bomb had been placed under a bridge they were to cross. He made the decision to reroute, and later on, they did infact discover a bomb under the bridge.

I think ultimately it would still involve Iraq and Afghanistan, since that general area is evidently where Bin Laden et al were most active. But you'd probably also see some US military action in the Philippines, and arguably the "War on Terror" would have started there.
 
In our timeline, the War on Terror began in Afghanistan in 2001 and then migrated to Iraq in 2003. So, in a alternate timeline, what would need happen for the War on Terror to start somewhere else, other than Afghanistan or Iraq, and what would that place be?
Bin Laden isn't evicted from Sudan?
 
In our timeline, the War on Terror began in Afghanistan in 2001 and then migrated to Iraq in 2003. So, in a alternate timeline, what would need happen for the War on Terror to start somewhere else, other than Afghanistan or Iraq, and what would that place be?
Bosnia ?
 

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Northern Ireland during the Troubles?
West Germany in the 1970s?
 
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If a "War on Terror" includes domestic terrorism, a worse militia movement in the 90s could lead to a "War on Terror" similar to the OTL War on Drugs in the US, focused on demestic extremist movements. @MaskedPickle's Perot timeline has this.
 
Successful massacre of hostage or crash on populated areas of the flight 8969 Air France in 1994 leads to direct French involvement In the Algerian civil war which leads to more terrorist arrack Eventually a coalition invaded Taliban Afghanistan
 
In our timeline, the War on Terror began in Afghanistan in 2001 and then migrated to Iraq in 2003. So, in a alternate timeline, what would need happen for the War on Terror to start somewhere else, other than Afghanistan or Iraq, and what would that place be?
Didn't Richard Holbrook suggested Bosnia ?
 
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