Alternate Al Quaida Strategy

Bin Laden & Co become even more confused & decide to attack what they see as the Great Satans allies. Instead of airliners hitting targets in the US the 9/11 attacks are in Europe. Paris, London, Rome are all targets. The US just gets another truck bomb in a parking garage that day.

How does this play out as the smoke rises from collapsed skyscrapers or the ruins of the Vatican?
 
Spreads the negative publicity, reduces the level of paranoia in the US specifically - yeah, that would make Al-Qaeda's situation worse in pretty much every respect, not least the decreased likelihood of success, what with multiple targets in multiple countries, all of which you'd need your agents to satisfy background checks to enter. It would be a terrible idea and unlikely to work besides.
 
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