The thread starter is correct. However the use of small pox, plague, binary super bio agents, Marsburg and the innocent in comparison anthrax could result in 10 - 120 million US fatalities which would indeed change the balance of economic and political influence in the world.
There would then be little standing in bin Laden's way to become the grand mullah of Saudi Arabia or perhaps king.
If I may be droll: You know how these family squabbles can get out of hand.

BTW...Oil and religion don't mix.