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Prologue
In the late 20th to the early 21st centuries a handful of third world countries began testing with nuclear and biological weapons. Not the least of which was North Korea and Iraq. Between the years of 1979 and 2003 Saddam Hussein killed between 20,000 to 100,000 Kurds, and between 60,000 and 130,000 Shi'ites. Some estimate all in all, including those in the Iran-Iraq wars; Hussein murdered about one million people in all during his reign. Between the years of 1994 and 2011 Kim Jong-il was the ruler in North Korea who ordered the testing of nuclear weapons in hopes of creating nuclear missiles. Upon the death of Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un took his place as leader of North Korea. Both governments hated the U.S. and did everything possible to make trouble where they could.
The animosity grew between the east and the west which lead to the events of September 11, 2001 in the attack on the United States by Muslim extremists under the leadership of Osama bin Laden where over three thousand lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and what would have been the White House had the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 not fought for control of the plane which crashed in a field near Shanks Ville, Pennsylvania.
In 2003 President George W Bush sent troops into Iraq after giving Hussein ample time to cooperate with UN demands concerning the inspection of his WMD's. This war lasted until President Barak Obama took the troops out of Iraq and sent them to Afghanistan in 2010 to find Osama bin Laden, who was captured and killed by Seal Team 6 in 2011. During this time and until 2014 tensions were high between the Middle East and the U.S. and the U.K. This tension is what ultimately led to WWIII…