More serious 9/11

Instead of what actually happened, the following takes place.

8:45 am - United Flight 93 hits the Pentagon, killing Rumsfeld, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Staff for the Army and the Vice CNO.

9:00 am - American Airlines 77 hits the South Tower, WTC

9:25 am - United Flight 175 hits the North Tower

9:30 am - truck bomb goes off outside of Congress.

9:45 am - A Continental airplane is hijacked and heading for Washington DC

10:00 am A hijacked Southwestern Airlines jet flies into a cruise ship just leaving Miami harbor.

10:05 am - President Bush authorizes the USAF to shoot down the Continental plane, which is shot down 10 minutes later outside of DC.


So what happens? Assume that large numbers of Congresscritters die.
 
Patriot Act even worse :eek:

But in all seriousness, expect martial law/some sort of dictatorial assumption of powers. As has been raised in numerous texts, both fiction and very non-fiction (DoD reports even), the US govt simply couldn't handle any scenario where it loses a lot of Senators/Representatives. Things go fubar very quickly, even in the best/most optimistic outlook.
 
I'm sure some people are going to give Bush flak over shooting down a passenger jet even if it was hijacked. Shit just got real.
 

mowque

Banned
Economy is hammered even harder. And we are all stunned at the fact that terrorist are WAY more organized then we thought.
 
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