I wonder if the British government has done any serious investigation of what Arabs and Muslims, if any, might have had access to the Porton Down facility over the last 15 years or so. That would be very interesting to know.
I'm interested to know if the "two unrelated materials" Ken Alibek used to weaponize anthrax that he talks about below to Ricahrd Preston are the SAME two materials found in the senate anthrax - that is silica nanoparticles and a siloxane binder (sometimes called "polymerized glass").
http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/articles/bioweapons.htm One day, Ken Alibek and I were sitting in a conference room near his office talking about the anthrax he and his research team had developed. "It's very difficult to say if I felt a sense of excitement over this. It's very difficult to say what I felt like," he said. "It wouldn't be true to say that I thought I was doing something wrong. I thought I had done something very important. The anthrax was one of my scientific results -- my personal result."
I asked him if he'd tell me the formula for his anthrax.
"I can't say this," he answered.
"I won't publish it. I'm just curious," I said.
"Look, you must understand, this is unbelievably serious. You can't publish this formula," he said. When I assured him I wouldn't, he told me the formula for the Alibekov anthrax. He uttered just one sentence. The Alibekov anthrax is simple, and the formula is somewhat surprising, not quite what you'd expect. Two unrelated materials are mixed with pure powdered anthrax spores. It took a lot of research and testing to get the trick right, and Alibek must have driven his research group hard and skillfully to arrive at it. "There are many countries that would like to know how to do this." he said