This was a very interesting and entertaining timeline, I love especially how you justify the changes in Saddam's actions, using his own egomania to make the different choices still remain in character for this would be recreator of Babylon.
I personally would love to see an additional sequel to this, perhaps spanning all the way to 2020, or maybe just the first decade of Qusay's reign. The continued tensions between Palestine and Israel offer up possible issues, along with the simple discussion after all of this about the use of Nuclear Weapons. The limited use of the weapons (and the fact that they were used only against military targets) definitively opens a can of worms for the powers that possess them. You could actually even see a situation develop between India/Pakistan or NK/SK and or Japan.
There is actually a part of me that wonders if, in the grand scheme of things, if this would have been better for our world for this to have happened.
At any rate, I'm keeping this one saved to my stories folder. Thank you for this great story.
