If 9/11 happened during the Reagan administration?

Same attack style on the WTC and Pentagon from Islamic terrorists. How would have Reagan responded if the attack emerged from Afghanistan? Or perhaps more time period appropriate Libya?
 
Same attack style on the WTC and Pentagon from Islamic terrorists. How would have Reagan responded if the attack emerged from Afghanistan? Or perhaps more time period appropriate Libya?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War

This scenario is not even close to being possible since the Islamist Aghans were currently in a guerrilla war against the invading commies. Why would Islamist Afghans stage an assault against America when they're being invaded by communist Russia ? They should be staging an assault against Moskow, not New York ?
 

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Same attack style on the WTC and Pentagon from Islamic terrorists. How would have Reagan responded if the attack emerged from Afghanistan? Or perhaps more time period appropriate Libya?
The US was backing islamic militants in the 80s against the Soviet Union. If any terror group would do 9/11 at the time, it would be Hezbollah which killed 241 marines in the 1983 bombing in Beirut. If that happened, the US would invade Lebanon and possibly Iran, which funded Hezbollah.
 
The US was backing islamic militants in the 80s against the Soviet Union. If any terror group would do 9/11 at the time, it would be Hezbollah which killed 241 marines in the 1983 bombing in Beirut. If that happened, the US would invade Lebanon and possibly Iran, which funded Hezbollah.

The United States doesn't even need to invade Iran. It's currently riled up in the Iraqi-Iranian War that lasted throughout the 1980s. All the Americans had to do was continue to use Hussein and fund even more of his military campaigns to bomb Iran and even Lebanon to submission. Push for even more support for Iraq against Iran and have them win.
 
Same attack style on the WTC and Pentagon from Islamic terrorists. How would have Reagan responded if the attack emerged from Afghanistan? Or perhaps more time period appropriate Libya?

And at the other end of the spectrum I would guess in 1983 there would be a better chance of having aircraft nearby that could actually intercept some of the craft. They said that they're 911 they couldn't get fighter jets there because they were based in Delaware and it took too long cat news for you to supersonic speeds Delaware to New York is not that long. And growing up in the Cold War the fact that we had on 9/11 no nearby aircraft of the major East Coast cities is boggled my mind yes tensions had eased but still none!
 
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