Any answers to those questions are extremely speculative; no one other than Bin Laden can say whether the attack would have taken place at precisely that time if Gore were President. It probably would have, IMO, but "IF" is a big word. And no American is more hated by Islamic extremists than George Bush Sr.
When history is altered by a bullet, (JFK would have been president from 1960-1968, and even after his assasination RFK would have ruled from '68-'76 if
he was not assasinated), or by the Supreme Court, (stopping the ballot count in 2000), you can never truly know how it "might have been".
I for one, and many others in hindsight think that Gore would have handled the complex foreign policy challenges of the last two years better than Bush has, and the entire world would still be behind us as it was after 9/11/01.
But nobody can say for sure, except the right-wing geniuses of talk radio.
