Part 1
On September 11, 2011, ten years after the New York Hijacking, the worst happened. Ten miniature suns appeared in ten American Cities. Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Washington, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, New Orleans, and Chicago were immolated by nuclear fire. Washington was the luckiest city, as the nuke suffered a fizzle. The death toll from the blasts alone was upwards 2 million, and in the following weeks, radiation would kill millions more. It was the most devastating attack on American soil in living memory. A memorable picture in years to come would be the twin towers of the world trade center collapsing after the blast, taken by a tourist from Ellis Island. President Hillary Clinton, who was overseas at the time, immediately flew back. Within days, the directors of the FBI, NSA, CIA, to name a few intelligence services (or those that survived the bombings), were sacked. Many of those directors would later face Congressional enquiries and charges of criminal negligence in court. Meanwhile, the replacement heads of every intelligence agency in the U.S. was trying to find who was behind the attacks. They didn’t have to look for long. Within days, Al Qaeda, a terrorist group operating on the Afghan-Pakistani border, announced responsibility for the attack. Osama Bin Laden, the Leader of the group, personally appeared in a recorded video, posted on YouTube, where he hailed the downfall of the “great Satan”. U.S intelligence agencies soon ascertained that ten nuclear weapons had been declared “missing” by Pakistan, and investigations into the disappearance suppressed by the Pakistani intelligence services.