WI President Al Gore publicly connected the 9/11 attacks to Saudi Arabia?

So there are many controversial seeming connections between members of the Saudi government and the 9/11 attackers. What if Al Gore, having won the presidency, made this information public and put the blame of the attacks on the Taliban in Afghanistan and on elements of the Saudi Arabian government?

Would there be an invasion of Saudi Arabia or any political actions taken against them?

I'm considering doing a President Al Gore timeline if I magically receive any free time in the near future and this would be one major aspect of it if I did.
 
Afghanistan was invaded for not handing over Bin Laden. What if the Saudis killed off or turned over those asked for by the Americans?
 
Afghanistan was invaded for not handing over Bin Laden. What if the Saudis killed off or turned over those asked for by the Americans?

Well that would be part of the drama of the situation.

And one person named is a distant-from-the-throne prince of the House of Saud and I highly doubt Saudi Arabia would ever give up a prince under any circumstance but I could be wrong.
 
Sorry for double posting, but I wanted to bring up a few other things regarding this.

  1. Would there be any chance that an American administration would take a hostile/contentious approach to Pakistan? I know they have nuclear weapons so any sort of invasion is out of the question, but what if Bin Laden was found in some location in Pakistan around 2004 or 2005? Would it be possible that the US could declare them a state sponsor of terrorism, embargo them, or, at the very least, sever their close ties?
  2. With Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and (potentially) Pakistan as the United States's enemies in the Middle East, could there be a push to normalize relations with Iran or would that be completely out of the question? I think it would make sense to try to normalize relations with at least one of the leading powers of the Middle East (especially if the other two are Iraq, who always had strained relations with the US, and Saudi Arabia, which might be invaded).
  3. How would an Iraq that was not invaded by the United States handle the Arab Spring? I can't help but picture it either falling into a Syria situation (which would make the situation even worse, with both of these bordering countries being in a similar situation) or splitting into three countries and doing not terribly.
  4. Would the opposition to Chavez's Venezuela be more moderate ITTL than in our actual one? There would be opposition, but I don't think Chavez would be so strongly anti-American if it wasn't for the Iraq War and the 2004 Haitian Coup (and I'm assuming neither of these would happen under Gore).
  5. Could the Sunshine Policy in Korea have continued and worked towards the easing of tensions between the two nations? George Bush had never been very supportive of a moderate approach to North Korea and called them part of the "Axis of Evil," but I think Gore would have continued Clinton's policy of doing basically anything to keep North Korea from getting nuclear weapons.

Those are all of the solid ideas I have right now. Not sure exactly what would happen here, and I'm still trying to think of what would happen in regards to Europe, Russia, most of Latin America, and China (I'm not trying to make everything different, just seeing where differences would exist).
 
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