Here's a little scenario I thought of the other day. It's not meant to become a full TL, just a backstory for something else.
Bill Clinton dies from a heart attack in February 1999. Gore ascends to the presidency, wins the Democratic nomination unopposed and proceeds to trounce Pat Buchanan in the general election.
As a response to the 'Bin Laden determined to strike the US' memo (or its in TL equivalent), Gore orders missile strikes against Afghanistan, which succeed in killing OBL (stole that one from Jeff Greenfield).
On September 11, at around 3 o'clock, as President Gore is leaving a fundraiser for a charity that buys computers for African schools, he is killed by an Al-Qaida suicide-bomber along with his wife Tipper. Thirty minutes later, a 737 crashes into the Manhattan-side tower of the GW Bridge. It collapses into the Hudson River. Aboard a second plane, the passengers and flight attendants manage the wrestle the control back from the terrorists. The plane crashes in Eastern Ontario, killing a Canadian farmer and all but seven people on board (among the survivors is one terrorist). There are numerous conspiracy theories according to which it was shot down by the RCAF after straying into Canadian airspace. Only the terrorist backs them, the other survivors have no clear recollection of the crash.
I'd like to hear comments about the general plausibility of the scenario, ideas as to what's next, and suggestions for Gore's VP (there's no reason to lazily assume it would be Lieberman as IOTL).
Thanks
