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Everyone keeps focusing on the dissemination of the anthrax from USAMRIID. That is pretty well documented and we know that the strain that was mailed could not have come from the shipment to England, (Porter Down) because of the genetic makeup. It is most like the original held by USAMRIID.

However, it is a mixture of this genotype 62 and genotype 62 with a mutation. They will find the culprit lab, when they find that combination.

The possibility exists that the mutation occurred after it was stolen. But if they can find that combination it is a smoking gun.

After the fact, the govt. called in all the samples of all the anthrax and tested them. That is all that existed. One place had destroyed all of theirs.....guess or read post #19.

What most do NOT focus on is where was this sent before it went to USAMRIID? And that one place and the place that destroyed their collection are one in the same.

After the fact, the govt. called in all the samples of all the anthrax and tested them. That is all that existed. One place had destroyed all of theirs.....guess or read post #19.

This is an even more plausible hypothesis than mine... actually it explains a lot of things, but also leaves some questions about the focus of the investigation.

In a major development, potentially as significant as the capture of Saddam Hussein, investigative journalist Richard Miniter says there is evidence to indicate Saddam’s anthrax program was capable of producing the kind of anthrax that hit America shortly after 9/11. Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden, told Accuracy in Media that during November he interviewed U.S. weapons inspector Dr. David Kay in Baghdad and that he was "absolutely shocked and astonished" at the sophistication of the Iraqi program.

Miniter said that Kay told him that, "the Iraqis had developed new techniques for drying and milling anthrax—techniques that were superior to anything the United States or the old Soviet Union had. That would make the former regime of Saddam Hussein the most sophisticated manufacturer of anthrax in the world." Miniter said there are "intriguing similarities" between the nature of the anthrax that could be produced by Saddam and what hit America after 9/11. The key similarity is that the anthrax is produced in such a way that "hangs in the air much longer than anthrax normally would" and is therefore more lethal.

I am a firm believer that Saddam indeed manufactured and distributed this Anthrax used in the mailing attacks.He got it from university samples that were sent there for medical study, Yes, ames strain. Some folks call me crazy but I also think that he did the very same thing West Nile Virus. I always found it quite interesting that Kay's comments went by the wayside so easily after the lefties touted his earlier statements.