[TrebleRebel]

Occam is correct. If either of these 2 even had a tiny connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks, even if they knew recipes similar to the one used in preparing the stuff, the US government would have locked them up and thrown away the key. I'm afraid it is the behavior of a zealot to try and reason otherwise.
We must look elsewhere to find those responsible.

[apokatastasis]

If the US government intended to safely lock them away forever, do you think it would keep them in Iraq itself? The Iraqi legal basis for these releases was created while CIA favorite Allawi was interim PM, just a month before the elections which first put the Iranian-backed parties into office. The releases themselves, or at least the news thereof, have come just after another round of elections, in which the religious parties again look to be the winners. Events as reported are consistent with the idea that our two bioscientists will be spending the rest of their lives somewhere in the West, under FBI or MI5 protection.