That’s an interesting thought, but it would seem to me that the anthrax attacks would have been far more devastating if they had the support of a government behind them, no?
Saddam was a blowhard and a nut with grandiose fantasies. Claiming he had set Israel ablaze, he actually managed to hit Israeli buildings with poison gas with a Scud or two out of the hundreds of Scuds wildly hurled during Gulf War I. God only knows if Saddam managed to get some anthrax letters mailed, but the feeble results vs. the braggadocio would have been characteristic of him.
When all this was going on, there was a lot of talk about how it would have taken a biological scientist with specialized equipment to produce the fine powder. I was personally thinking “hogwash” but didn’t elaborate at the time because I did not want to give eager mad scientists ideas. But it’s probably safe now to say that anybody who has handled clay cat litter or Oil-Dri, and who has used an ordinary kitchen blender to turn granulated sugar into powdered sugar in a pinch for a recipe, would be able to figure out how to produce such a powder given access to a strain of deadly bacteria. It wouldn’t be as concentrated as the lab kind, but it would probably suffice to infect somebody’s skin or lungs sans antibiotic treatment. And no, it would not need someone with the skill of a Hatfield or Ivins.