Geon
Donor
AQ Retaliation?
I personally think that if bin Laden had been killed in December, 2001 we would be dealing with a much worse reaction in the Middle and Near East then we did in OTL. Scott Palter wrote an excellent timeline with bin Laden's early death as a trigger for some cataclysmic events. (See link below.)
http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/postcoldwar/a_dystopia_to_fold_laundry_by.htm
Some may disagree with this view given the seemingly mild reaction that came following his death in OTL. However, consider, that this was barely 3 months after September 11th. OBL was the "darling" of the Islamic Fundamentalists at that time. He had successfully struck at American interests and shown the U.S. to be vulnerable. I truly believe given that he was riding such a wave of adulation from others of like mind there would have been some form of retaliation in the form of riots and attacks on foreign interests.
Geon
I personally think that if bin Laden had been killed in December, 2001 we would be dealing with a much worse reaction in the Middle and Near East then we did in OTL. Scott Palter wrote an excellent timeline with bin Laden's early death as a trigger for some cataclysmic events. (See link below.)
http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/postcoldwar/a_dystopia_to_fold_laundry_by.htm
Some may disagree with this view given the seemingly mild reaction that came following his death in OTL. However, consider, that this was barely 3 months after September 11th. OBL was the "darling" of the Islamic Fundamentalists at that time. He had successfully struck at American interests and shown the U.S. to be vulnerable. I truly believe given that he was riding such a wave of adulation from others of like mind there would have been some form of retaliation in the form of riots and attacks on foreign interests.
Geon