No 9/11

On August 20,1998 a group of United States Navy ships launch cruise missiles at Al- Qaeda training camps near the city of Khost in Eastern Afghanistan. One of the cruise missiles explodes over a training camp West of the city. The leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is present at the camp and is killed instantly in the explosion. Al-Qaeda soon collapses without a leader.

August 20, 1998-2000
A Central Intelligence Agency team is sent to the camp on August 27, 1998 to investigate intelligence that Osama bin Laden was killed in the attack. They tour the camp remains and find bin Laden's body. They take photos and send them to CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The body is confirmed as bin Laden's and the information is sent to the Pentagon. The next day President Clinton is briefed on the matter by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense William Cohen. On September 6, 1998 President Clinton announces that the mastermind of the Embassy Bombings a month before, Osama bin Laden, is dead and Al-Qaeda has collapsed.

Immediately Clinton's aapproval ratings soar to ninety percent and stay that high for several weeks. Clinton basks in the glory of bringing the culprits of the two worst terrorist attacks in American history, the Embassy and Oklahoma City Bombings, to justice fairly quickly. For the rest of the year the regular political conversations continued and nothing much happened. That is until March, 1999

The Kosovo War began May 31, 1998 when the Yugoslav Army began an operation to clear the border regions of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. The war escalated into armed conflict and human rights abuses and massacres were commited by the Yugoslav forces. In early March, 1999 President Clinton decided that this needed to stop and plans were drawn up for an invasion of Yugoslavia. However, NATO soon wanted to get involved in the operation and Clinton let them in. On March 22, 1999 American and NATO aircraft began to bomb targets throughout Yugoslavia. This marked the beggining of the NATO War in Yugoslavia.