More altered events (2001):
In the span of a month, two major earthquakes strike El Salvador, killing more than 1,200 people. San Salvador accuses and condemns Guatemala and Cuba for the disasters, accusing them of having developed a super-weapon capable of creating earthquakes.
Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards who was killed while trying to escape. His son, Joseph Kabila, took office and led an investigation into the assassination. After executing 135 people, including 4 children, the DRC produced evidence implicating South Africa. The U.N. condemned the executions and conducted their own investigation, which was hampered at every turn by DRC operatives. IST Brazzaville and IST Kinshasa uncover Rwandan and Lebanese influence, but can find no evidence of South African involvement, nor any evidence of guilt for more than 100 of those executed.
The Seattle, Washington fusion plant destabilizes. The area is evacuated. Emergency efforts to shut down the reactor fail. The plant detonates generating a Richter 6.8 earthquake in the area. Thousands are injured, yet only a dozen are killed, mostly plant workers who stayed at their post to try to buy time and save the reactor. Safety concerns, over the American fusion reactors, run rampant in the media. Canada and the U.N. request that the US take all fusion reactors of American design off-line.
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline, inflicting more than five-billion dollars in damages. Recriminations fly that the IWO either ignored the event or increased the magnitude of the storm. Citing official documents from the Buchanan administration, the IWO shows that the US forbade U.N. agencies from altering weather that would affect the US.--I'm considering having a terrorist attack on the U.N. instead of the WTC. I'm thinking about it being Colombian/Guatemalan in origin, backed/paid for by China.
ETA: Clarified a sentence
In the span of a month, two major earthquakes strike El Salvador, killing more than 1,200 people. San Salvador accuses and condemns Guatemala and Cuba for the disasters, accusing them of having developed a super-weapon capable of creating earthquakes.
Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards who was killed while trying to escape. His son, Joseph Kabila, took office and led an investigation into the assassination. After executing 135 people, including 4 children, the DRC produced evidence implicating South Africa. The U.N. condemned the executions and conducted their own investigation, which was hampered at every turn by DRC operatives. IST Brazzaville and IST Kinshasa uncover Rwandan and Lebanese influence, but can find no evidence of South African involvement, nor any evidence of guilt for more than 100 of those executed.
The Seattle, Washington fusion plant destabilizes. The area is evacuated. Emergency efforts to shut down the reactor fail. The plant detonates generating a Richter 6.8 earthquake in the area. Thousands are injured, yet only a dozen are killed, mostly plant workers who stayed at their post to try to buy time and save the reactor. Safety concerns, over the American fusion reactors, run rampant in the media. Canada and the U.N. request that the US take all fusion reactors of American design off-line.
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline, inflicting more than five-billion dollars in damages. Recriminations fly that the IWO either ignored the event or increased the magnitude of the storm. Citing official documents from the Buchanan administration, the IWO shows that the US forbade U.N. agencies from altering weather that would affect the US.--I'm considering having a terrorist attack on the U.N. instead of the WTC. I'm thinking about it being Colombian/Guatemalan in origin, backed/paid for by China.
ETA: Clarified a sentence