[JOAT]

It was weaponized

If I remember correctly, wasn't it identified as a strain made in the good ol' USA?

My recollection was that they tried to mount a witch hunt against 'militias' and drained some ponds looking for a smoking gun.

It strains credulity to think something as tightly controlled as US engineered, weapons-grade Anthrax would be in the possession of anyone other than a government agency.

The spin at the time was that we exported this stuff to Saddam(?!?!) who later supplied it to domestic terror operatives here.

I'm not sure anyone actually bought that particular line of Shiite spin, but I think that was the line.

Anybody else remember that?

[GOP_1900AD]

The strain is one thing, where it was grown and weaponized is another thing.

[jpl]

We know for an absolute fact that that Ames strain that was used in the attacks is held in Great Britain and Canada, in addition to many government and university medical labs within the United States. We gave it them for research purposes.

What we don't know for a fact is whether or not countries such as Russia, Iraq, China, Pakistan, etc. ever managed to obtain samples of the strain through espionage. There have been unsubstantiated reports recently that strongly indicate that the old Soviet Union managed to penetrate Ft. Detrick at some time in the '80s. Furthermore, government and military security at our facilities during the Clinton '90s was a sick joke (Los Alamos, anyone?)

Frankly, I have my doubts that our government would ever openly acknowledge that a country such as Russia or Iraq managed to steal Ames even if they knew for a fact it were true.

[muawiyah]

You have a "disremember" of where the anthrax was manufactured. No one knows.

What you recall is the finding that some of it seemed to be derived from a standard sample version distributed worldwide that was developed at Ames, Iowa.