Thanks for the additional information!
Yes. Reading between the lines, these other guys seem fine, but Hibri seems defensive. Forget religion - he's the one in the article implicated in something other than good works.
As you know, at least publicly known is the Ames strain was limited to some American labs, Porton Down in the UK, and...Bioport. I don't need "conspiracy" to consider the source germ could have come from any one of them...including Bioport.