DBWI: Olympic Closing Ceremony not Nuked

What if, the Al Qaida Terrorists did not manage to nuke the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics?

Osama Bin Laden thinks of something else that would not have the West coming down on him very hard.

The submarine is better defended, and thus not able to be hijacked?

The submarine is intercepted? (By other Russians? By Americans?)

What happens in Australia now?

What happens in the absence of the War against Terror?

What happens in the US election would Bush still win?
 
I don't get it. What would be the point of Olympic events like the 20 km Sack-Race, if the contestants didn't have to escape the blast radius of the Closing Ceremony?
 

Rockingham

Banned
[ooc]I feel honor-bound to interpret DBWI's as wrongfully as possible, and the OP didn't rule out a bizarro ATL where nukes were a deliberate part of the Games. :D[ooc]

You are supposed to insert an "ooc"(out of character) at both ends of your non-DBWI statement:rolleyes:

And in general, that kind of joke is frowned upon here.;)
 
Since I was eight when this happened, I thought Al Quaeda was an athlete who didn't make it into the Olympics, so he got mad and nuked everyone, so he'd get the medals by default. Don't follow his example.

OOC: I thought it was a guy named Al Qwaedea who masterminded 9-11, until I learned it was a group.

Relative to the DBWI: Al Quaeda would probably launch an offensive into India for Hindu recruits. They would build a strong economic position in India, and could build an army.
 

Rockingham

Banned
Since I was eight when this happened, I thought Al Quaeda was an athlete who didn't make it into the Olympics, so he got mad and nuked everyone, so he'd get the medals by default. Don't follow his example.

OOC: I thought it was a guy named Al Qwaedea who masterminded 9-11, until I learned it was a group.

Relative to the DBWI: Al Quaeda would probably launch an offensive into India for Hindu recruits. They would build a strong economic position in India, and could build an army.
I am going to sig this:D
 
Well, let's not forget the results of the attack would not have followed. Many Muslim athletes were among the victims of the attacks, and so Al Qaeda didn't just trigger an all out war between the West and Islam, as many would like to believe, it triggered a internal Jihad over these actions.

Islamic Terror might still be around today as a result as well. Part of this, I suppose, is that the Western Reprisials against Muslims would have been much smaller. Indeed, this would trigger an exodus of Muslims from Europe--nearly unthinkable, but it would coincide with Israel's expulsion of Palestians and Vladimir Putin's all-out offensive in Chechnya. There can't be any islamic terror when the people of Europe and the United States start evicting Muslims by the millions.

If the Muslims were attempting to gain respect as a result of these actions, they failed horribly. Indeed, while there is more hate towards the west than ever before, it's hard to claim that it wasn't a massive problem in the shadows. Needless to say, the USA, EU, and Russia agreed on revising Israel's borders to include the Suez Canal and most Saudi and Iraqi oil. There is a nagging insurgency, but forced relocation of terrorist monsters seems to break up the problem.

Finally, the city of Mecca itself is just a button away from obliteration.

If there had been no nuke and the killing of 1 Million people, the world would not have the "Us or Them" complex it has towards Muslims--and there might not have been a lot of crappy stuff happening towards them, even though they richly deserve it.
 

Rockingham

Banned
My bad :( I am of course assuming the Nuclear Olympics take place on suitable test ranges, where non-contestants won't be injured.
Never mind, I was jesting anyway. This is a DBWI, and idiocy is expected, and indeed required here:p

Edit:Wow, thousandth post.... I should probably open the virtual champagne bottle:p
 
I know one thing, that Sweden wouldnt be one of the few nations that had surviving athleats(we send them home as soon as they have finished competing in every olympics) and we wouldnt win the medalstandings in Athens in 2004
 
I know one thing, that Sweden wouldnt be one of the few nations that had surviving athleats(we send them home as soon as they have finished competing in every olympics) and we wouldnt win the medalstandings in Athens in 2004

Indeed, Sweden won every event! Almost everyone else came a distant second...
 
President Bill Clinton and V.P. Al Gore wouldn't have been killed during their attendance to the Olympic Ceremonies in Sydney, and as such Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) wouldn't have been in a position to appoint George W. Bush as the Republican presidential candidate that same week. Maybe John McCain (R-AZ) would have been elected...

On a lighter note, the San Francisco-based punk rock band wouldn't have been named "The Dead Clintons"....
 
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