IST doesn't have to mirror our reality unless Bob so wills it to. But since it's a major change here, we would want to know _if_ something like that did happen.
As to the roots of Al Qeada, they're not so much in the first gulf war, tho that's a contributing factor, but they're also in the Afganistan situation: where we backed guerilla forces (including this young punk from Saudi Arabi with the familiar initials ObL) then basically turned our back on them when the Soviets fled.
Skitz
As to the roots of Al Qeada, they're not so much in the first gulf war, tho that's a contributing factor, but they're also in the Afganistan situation: where we backed guerilla forces (including this young punk from Saudi Arabi with the familiar initials ObL) then basically turned our back on them when the Soviets fled.
Skitz