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To: Razorbak who wrote (38525)	2/28/1999 10:03:00 PM
From: steinman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

This may be splitting hairs, but Colombia seems to have access to plenty of spare parts. Could the situation for Iraq be different? steinman

To: Razorbak who wrote (38525)	2/28/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

Oh you're so right Razorbak, silly stupid me. It's really not easy to sabotage oil pipelines again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and whew is that 16 yet? Nope one more time. And again. But isn't that they way of the guerilla? Perhaps you may recall the Chinese Red Armies victory over the Kuomintang? Or that of Fidels guerilla army over Batista? Or The VC/North Vietnamese against the Stars and Stripes? Or TE Lawrences campaign against the turkish rails. Another few months of this and perhaps they will abandon the pipe. Stranger things have happened. Which is precisely how guerillas work. Hit you're enemy were he is weakest and hit him again and again until the weaker force overcomes the stronger. But you're right. I concede. The Saudi's are invincible. $6 oil dead ahead. Chicken Little

To: Razorbak who wrote (38525)	2/28/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

(2) Blown up pipelines are relatively easy to fix (average < 3.7 days in the jungles of Colombia)....How 'bout trying a different argument? Did everyone just ignore the post of diana g, where the report said that it was "electrical transmission lines feeding a control center which operated the pipeline [which was bombed], causing a shut-down of the pipeline to Jordan". So we're not talking plastique making a hole in the side of a tube, we're talking power transmission lines. If the Iraqis have something equivalent to US West Communications, then they may as well start the prayers to Allah right now. -GG- PS - I know US West is phone, not electrical, just being funny.