MAJOR GENERAL PARKER: We do know that we found silica in the samples.
Distorting facts again, I see. Why else would you omit the rest of what General Parker said?
MAJOR GENERAL PARKER: We do know that we found silica in the samples. Now, we don't know what that motive would be, or why it would be there, or anything.
AFIP mistakenly claimed they knew why it was there, but General Parker didn't. If the "silica" were VISIBLE, it would be clear to everyone why it was there. But, since no one could SEE any trace of additives, the intelligent person would admit that he didn't know why it was there. Anyone claiming to know why it was there would be making assumptions.
http://www.afip.org/images/public/nl081002.pdf
The AFIP lab deputy director, Florabel Mullick, said “This [silica] was a key component. Silica prevents the anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011029-4.html
MAJOR GENERAL PARKER: We do know that we found silica in the samples.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.2/osullbio.html
“Then they say, Well, what about Saddam Hussein? He must have done it on the cheap.’ Nonsense! If you read the UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission] reports, there’s something like 14 facilities they knew were connected with the program, the biggest of which was Al Hakam, with enormous equipment—fermenters and the like. So as far as we know, he didn’t even get all the way there. Maybe some genius has a way of doing it in his garage, but that’s not the way anybody’s ever tried to do it—including Saddam.”
“If anthrax is stirred incorrectly it may clump,” notes Meselson, “and if the cells clump you can’t make an aerosol weapon. They stick together like glue. Who would have thought of that? And I imagine that there are hundreds of little wrinkles like that. All the nonsense about ease of production ignores these facts.”