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I would go back to 9/10/01 and I would take a stack of newspapers with me.

This is a good thought. I don't think you'd need a stack of newspapers. Just take enough to find six or seven big guys to get on all four planes. When the little ragheads tried something, your guys could turn those boxcutters into the world's largest suppositories.

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Bill

I would go back to 9/10/01 and I would take a stack of newspapers with me.

But what if, after having prevented the events on 911, America doesn't engage in a war on terrorism or does it half-hearted. This gives Saddam time to create nuclear weapons which are used on Israel and America causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands and igniting a nuclear war? Time travels a tricky business.

I would go back to 9/10/01 and I would take a stack of newspapers with me.

I've daydreamed about this a lot. (Probably part of the grieving process.) Let's see. What would I do...

I'd go back to November 1999. Me and Jenny₂ would go to the FBI & force them to take our fingerprints & compare them. (Hopefully we could convince the nice agent to fingerprint us just on the strength of our amazingly identical moles, & identically aged purses & wallets & etc.) You see, without some extraordinary proof of time travel like that, I'd be rightly dismissed as a loon.

Then I'd tell him about how Ahmed Ressam is going to be caught at the Anacortes ferry terminal in WA with a trunk-ful of explosives in December.

Then I'd tell him about the Cole in February 2000. They probably still wouldn't do anything about it, but unfortunately that's an acceptable price to pay for proving my bona-fides.

Then in March 2000 we'd max out our credit cards & do some serious short selling & put buying.

Then I'd tell him to call me in Apr. 2001 so I can tell him about a certain Wash. DC intern & the need for some intensive surveillance.

And of course he should call back in August 2001. I agree with Brett66 that simply preventing 9/11 from happening wouldn't be the best thing to do. It would have to be handled deftly, so that the attempt almost succeeds. A similar problem would occur if we went back to early 1941: If there were a hundred American P-40s circling Honolulu waiting for the Japanese, then wouldn't the Japs send in the 2nd wave that they didn't do in our timeline? (However, I assume it would take more energy the farther in time you move the mass.)