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Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage--in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.

The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee--a war hero named Osama bin Laden--will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems ...

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Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage--in mirage -- in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." countries". A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.

The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee--a Committee -- a war hero named Osama bin Laden--will Laden -- will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems ...
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* TheMenInBlack: Al Quaeda.

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* TheRapture: What militant Christians believe in.

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** Al Jazeera here fills the role of the Creator/FoxNewsChannel, complete with its own ''Jazeera & Friends'' morning talk show.

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** Creator/AlJazeera here fills the role of the Creator/FoxNewsChannel, complete with its own ''Jazeera & Friends'' morning talk show.

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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman : quite a few examples :

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* CivilWar : An interesting example with [[spoiler: the [[StateSec Texas CIA]], with the more moderate exiled [[TheFundamentalist Waco Faction]] still fighting against the actual [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyrrany Crawford Faction]] that's the real command of the agency ]].

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* CivilWar : CivilWar: An interesting example with [[spoiler: the [[StateSec Texas CIA]], with the more moderate exiled [[TheFundamentalist Waco Faction]] still fighting against the actual [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyrrany Crawford Faction]] that's the real command of the agency ]].



* MisplacedRetribution : LBJ [[spoiler: sometimes snaps back into our world's LBJ, and is understandably very confused at the entire thing and why he's accused of being a cruel tyrant.]]

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* MisplacedRetribution : MisplacedRetribution: LBJ [[spoiler: sometimes snaps back into our world's LBJ, and is understandably very confused at the entire thing and why he's accused of being a cruel tyrant.]]
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* CivilWar : An interesting example with [[spoiler: the [[StateSec Texas CIA]], with the more moderate exiled [[TheFundamentalist Waco Faction]] still fighting against the actual [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyrrany Crawford Faction]] that's the real command of the agency ]].


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* MisplacedRetribution : LBJ [[spoiler: sometimes snaps back into our world's LBJ, and is understandably very confused at the entire thing and why he's accused of being a cruel tyrant.]]
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* HereditaryRepublic : The CSA was this before LBJ took over, as it's mentioned that President Joseph P. Kennedy abdicated in favor of his [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Son]] in 1960.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade : [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]] goes from (depending on your political opinions) either a [[WellIntentionedExtremist misguided but well-intentioned politician]] or a [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent incompetent Buffoon]] into a full on [[TheGeneralissimo Totalitarian Dictator]] who [[AssholeVictim murdered the entire Kennedy Family]] and [[GeneralRipper planned wars of conquest in all of North America]].


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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman : quite a few examples :
** [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Tricky Dick himself]] never rose to the presidency, instead being the member of a failed [[MilitaryCoup coup attempt]] against President Kennedy.
** [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush George Bush Jr.]] is a down-on-his-luck nobody living in downtown Austin.
** [[UsefulNotes/DickCheney Richard Cheney]] is a [[StateSec Texas CIA member]] (although a pretty high ranking one)
** Gadaffi is not the President of Lybia but instead its governor, being the [[ButtMonkey butt of every joke from Morroco to Persia]] but still in charge due to having corrupted the local electoral system.
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** The Library of Alexandria is obviously one of Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

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* AlternateHistory: The original 13 United Arab States broke away from the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century, later expanding to include the entire Arab world. According to the Library of Alexandria website, the second world war was ended when a third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, Hitler didn't commit suicide and was instead beheaded at Nuremberg, there was a Mexican gulf war fought over the Kingdom of Louisiana, and it's implied that the UAS landed men on the moon and underwent an equivalent to the civil rights movement. And, of course, Christian fundamentalist terrorists attacked and destroyed the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers on November 9th, 2001, prompting a war on terror and invasion of the Christian States of America.

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* AlternateHistory: The original 13 United Arab States broke away from the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century, later expanding to include the entire Arab world. According to the Library of Alexandria website, the second world war was Second World War ended when a third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, Hitler didn't commit suicide and was instead beheaded at Nuremberg, there was a Mexican gulf war Gulf War fought over the Kingdom of Louisiana, and it's implied that the UAS landed men on the moon and underwent an equivalent to the civil rights movement. And, Civil Rights Movement, and of course, Christian fundamentalist terrorists attacked and destroyed the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers World Trade Towers on November 9th, 2001, prompting a war on terror and invasion of the Christian States of America.

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