WI: 9/11 at the Millennium Summit

What if 9/11 had occurred almost a year earlier during the Millennium Summit?

The Millennium Summit was the largest gathering of world leaders in history. The Head of State of almost every nation in the world was in New York City during September 6-8 2000.
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Heads of all five Security Council members, Israel and Palestine, all Middle Eastern nations, and European union members.

So, what if they were all killed? A Global Crusade never seen before? Al Gore becomes President and wins in 2000.
 
What if 9/11 had occurred almost a year earlier during the Millennium Summit?

The Millennium Summit was the largest gathering of world leaders in history. The Head of State of almost every nation in the world was in New York City during September 6-8 2000.


Heads of all five Security Council members, Israel and Palestine, all Middle Eastern nations, and European union members.

So, what if they were all killed? A Global Crusade never seen before? Al Gore becomes President and wins in 2000.

the entire planet then hunts down the terrorists .. and a lot of crap regimes get some relief from loosing their crap leaders
 
What if 9/11 had occurred almost a year earlier during the Millennium Summit?

Heads of all five Security Council members, Israel and Palestine, all Middle Eastern nations, and European union members.

So, what if they were all killed? A Global Crusade never seen before? Al Gore becomes President and wins in 2000.

Al Gore becomes president in a time of crisis. He wins the 2000 election.

Yes, a Global crusade. Al Gore's a wonkish type who wouldn't take his eye off the ball.

I'd trade the tail end of Clinton's Presidency to avoid the damage that Bush the Lesser did to this country and the rest of the world. I'll stop there 'cause this isn't Chat.
 
I would also like to ask about the global chaos this will cause. How many civil war will start? And many power struggles will occur? How many countries will invade each other?

I ask this because I'm think how many dictators will be killed. Most of their regimes revolved around them.

Something I did not say in my first post, the North Korea delegates did not attend the summit. They were stopped in a German airport. Could North Korea spin this story on why they are the best?
 
Something I did not say in my first post, the North Korea delegates did not attend the summit. They were stopped in a German airport. Could North Korea spin this story on why they are the best?

Probably, they spin and outright lie about almost everything.
 
I would also like to ask about the global chaos this will cause. How many civil war will start? And many power struggles will occur? How many countries will invade each other?

I ask this because I'm think how many dictators will be killed. Most of their regimes revolved around them.

Something I did not say in my first post, the North Korea delegates did not attend the summit. They were stopped in a German airport. Could North Korea spin this story on why they are the best?

Oh dear.........................

People would probably look back on the start of the millennium as a horrible start.
 
This has butterflies all over the place.

The leader of Russia in 2000 was Putin. Israel is not that a big a deal because its Ehud Barak, Palestine might because the leader was Arafat.


All of clintons past foibles get forgotten in a rally the round President Gore moment. Hillary Clinton seen as iron lady soldiering on after her husbands death. Clinton fatigue goes out the window.


Who replaces Putin?
 
This has butterflies all over the place.

The leader of Russia in 2000 was Putin. Israel is not that a big a deal because its Ehud Barak, Palestine might because the leader was Arafat.


All of clintons past foibles get forgotten in a rally the round President Gore moment. Hillary Clinton seen as iron lady soldiering on after her husbands death. Clinton fatigue goes out the window.


Who replaces Putin?

In the event of the Russian President dying/leaving office/etc., it is the Prime Minister who would take over the country (i.e. similar with the Yeltsin-Putin handover of power.) So in this case is it would be this nice chap named Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov

Basically, in this alternate timeline you can thank Al-Qaeda for creating a democratic Russia that is at peace with the West.:p:D

This is a great plot point which I might use for my first TL (I just ceased being a lurker!:).
 
And did they?

Well, the guy who did attend was the head of the Northern Alliance so while the Taliban didn't send him, basically yes.

As for some of the delegates (and I note we're assuming a total wipeout which would be somewhat unlikely but still), we're not going to see dictatorship collapses for a number of them- Assad, Hussein and Gadaffi sent government ministers to represent them. Mugabe did attend, as did Saleh though.
 
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