What if the September 11th, 2001 attacks never happened?

So, with that in mind: What if the al-Qaeda attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, had never happened? What if the plan to hijack airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and possibly the Capitol had been called off or thwarted, or never even developed? read more

If the attacks had not happened, the findings of the newspapers’ consortium study of the Florida ballots from the 2000 election would have been the Big News of the autumn of 2002, not upstaged by the war in Afghanistan. read more

3,497 People would not have died that day. President Bush would not have declared war on terrorism. But because he declared war about 100,000 people. read more

If the September 11, 2001, attacks never happened, Americans would be marking some later date as the anniversary of the most devastating terrorist strike on the homeland in modern history. The high water mark of terrorist attacks against Americans remains the late 1980s. read more