[Elendur]

Ali al-Timimi, to my mind, is the true culprit.
See my post at #15 - it is a corker of a story.
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i agree

...and LadyDoc in #18 is correct. Irvins may have been nuts, but he wasn’t capable of weaponizing it by himself.
He didn’t have the expertise in that area, and he didn’t have access to the necessary equipment.
and if he was in on it at all (which i personally doubt, for many reasons), he certainly wasn’t alone, and didn’t actually mail any of it.

...and even if i didn’t know anything about it, if the LA Times is pushing it, i’d know it wasn’t true.

[smokingfrog]

Ali Al-Timimi, later imprisoned for recruiting American Muslims to fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was a graduate student in computational biology with an office around the corner from that of Charles Bailey, Vice President of Advanced Biosystems and former deputy commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

Much evidence suggests that Bruce Ivins prepared the anthrax, but he didn't do it at USAMRIID. It seems that he prepared powdered virulent anthrax at a facility like Southern Research Institute (SRI) in Frederick that presumably had considerably more appropriate equipment than was available at USAMRIID as well as a Biological Safety Level 3 facility. Patricia F. Fellows, Ivins's former close collaborator at USAMRIID who later moved to SRI, appears to have been the only one of his close associates who thought that he was the Mailer--perhaps because she knew that he had had access at SRI to the anthrax that showed up in the letters.

Therefore, SRI emerges as the most likely place for the anthrax in the letters to the senators to have been prepared