Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
If something happens on 9/11, it's going to be something different, if only because I don't want to slavishly follow the "real world" when
the timelines have diverged so much in the previous 20 years.
And John, yes, al-Qaeda's roots go back farther than GW1, but the core issues that prompted
the 9/11 attack, according to the best sources I've read, all revolve around the US presence in Saudi Arabia (and the mideast in general, but mainly the
"infidels on holy ground" thing).
-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Personally, I think al-Qaeda's a bit low-power to be a world-class threat in a superhero world as it is in the
real world. Instead, my idea was to have it absorbed, alongside other radical islamic terror groups, into a larger organisation with better funding, and
actual air, sea and land power. In short, something like Hasbro's Cobra, DC's Kobra or Hero's Viper, but with an islamic bent. Led by a fanatical
and charismatic military genius, and equipped with high-tech weaponry and the ruthlessness to use them, this organisation's overall goal would be uniting
the Middle East into a single Islamic Empire worthy of the heirs of Ali.