Well, if the 'manual' described it as a 'tetanus virus chemical', I'm a lot less worried. Tetanus = a symptom caused by a toxin produced by a specific Clostridium bacterium. Sounds a bit over-hyped.
OTOH, I've known quite a few sharpshooters who couldn't spell 'bullet'.
Anything is possible.
During his clandestine operations Sufaat is said to have met several times with Fathuir Rahman Ghozi, an extremist Indonesian militant living in the Philippines and suspected of having organized an attack last December against the U.S. embassy in Singapore. ------ "Al Qaeda's Malaysian Links ," Intelligence Online POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE; TERRORISM / MALAYSIA; N. 425 March 14, 2002
so who's this Sufaat guy?
Well, he's this guy:
Sufaat was arrested in December last year following a petition filed by the FBI against a French-Morocan citizen Zacharias Massaoui, who is believed to be the first Al-Qaeda operative charged in court. In the pettition, Yazid Sufaats name was mentioned as a business sponsor of Massaoui, who was entitled to a salary of US2000 for representing the import export company of Sufaat. ------- "Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative Sufaat Denies Terror Charges," Islam Online ^ | April 14 2002 | Kazi Mahmood
So, what about Sufaat? Seems he was into bioweapons research :
[Abdur] Rauf's money demands may have led to a falling-out with Zawahiri, who appears to have decided to explore other options for obtaining bacteria and lab equipment, said Rohan Gunaratna, an al-Qaeda expert with the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore.
Gunaratna said al-Qaeda leaders also collaborated with Yazid Sufaat, a member of an allied Southeast Asian group called Jemaah Islamiyah, in purchasing equipment for the Kandahar lab. Sufaat, who once studied chemistry at California State University at Sacramento, has been in custody since late 2001.
"Rauf was financially driven, and al-Qaeda didn't entirely trust him," Gunaratna said.
-------- "Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Scientist With Ties To Group Goes Free," Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2006 | Joby Warrick
So who is this Abdur Rauf?
In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents chronicling an attempt by al-Qaeda to create its own anthrax weapon. The documents told of a singular mission by a scientist named Abdur Rauf, an obscure, middle-aged Pakistani with alleged al-Qaeda sympathies and an advanced degree in microbiology.
Using his membership in a prestigious scientific organization to gain access, Rauf traveled through Europe on a quest, officials say, to obtain both anthrax spores and the equipment needed to turn them into highly lethal biological weapons. He reported directly to al-Qaeda's No. 2 commander, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and in one document he appeared to signal a breakthrough.
"I successfully achieved the targets," he wrote cryptically to Zawahiri in a note in 1999. Precisely what Rauf achieved may never be known with certainty. That's because U.S. officials remain stymied in their nearly five-year quest to bring charges against a man who they say admitted serving as a top consultant to al-Qaeda on anthrax -- a claim that makes him one of a handful of people linked publicly to the group's effort to wage biological warfare against Western targets. ------- "Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Scientist With Ties To Group Goes Free," Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2006 | Joby Warrick