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In keeping with my morbid fascination regarding Presidential assassinations, I bring you this thread.

While President Bill Clinton faced at least 3 other assassination attempts, this one interests me the most. In 1996, during his visit to the APEC Forum in Manila, Clinton narrowly avoided assassination by none other than Osama bin Laden. Shortly before his motorcade was to go over a bridge, US intelligence discovered information suggesting that an attack was soon to come. Lewis Merletti, then head of the Secret Service, rerouted the motorcade and, of course, Clinton lived. Shortly thereafter, a bomb was discovered under that very bridge, and the plot was linked back to bin Laden.

But what if Bill Clinton's motorcade hadn't been rerouted? What if the bomb had been detonated while he was crossing, and Clinton was killed? The APEC conference in 1996 ran from November 24–25, only about 20 days after the Presidential Election. How would Al Gore handle the situation, and would this change his luck come 2000 (assuming he seeks an elected term of his own)?
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