From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Geo. says...

> The one possibility I did come up with all by myself: they keep mentioning
> bio/chem weapons. What if... a bio weapon were to go off over the oil
> fields? Who could possibly run an oil business in a contaminated wasteland?
> Certainly not Iraq..

With most biological weapons, pretty much anyone could run an oil field after the
weapon "went" off. There is no strategic value to a biological
weapon that contaminates an area for a long period of time, especially when
that area has other
strategic value.

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