[Nogbad]

How do these facts fit with the "filled abroad" theory?

The Filled Abroad theory postulates that there were two grades of anthrax:

1. The extremely potent Daschle anthrax with which the NJ letters were filled (abroad).

2. The much lower grade quality BocaRaton anthrax,
...which was given to the children to play with
...so they wouldn't feel neglected.

[keri]

You're right. (articulate too)

[Mitchell]

Do we really have evidence that the Boca Raton anthrax was of lower quality? Was any of the actual powder found (so that it could be tested for its physical properties)? I thought that all we knew about the anthrax at AMI was its biological strain; I presume that a culture was made, either from spores found at AMI or from samples collected from patients (Stevens and/or Blanco). We'd need have a sample of the powder to test for physical properties ("weaponization").

Unless there's good evidence otherwise, Occam's Razor suggests that, as a working hypothesis, all the anthrax is from the same batch.

Based on the infections, the Boca Raton anthrax appears to have been approximately as potent and as "weaponized" as the NJ anthrax. Two people at AMI got inhalation anthrax; nobody at the sites of the NJ mailings did, although there were cases of inhalation anthrax from cross-contamination (postal workers, Nguyen, and Lundgren). [I assume that the hypothetical FL envelopes didn't go through the "squeezing machines" that the NJ envelopes went through, accounting for the cross-contamination problem in NJ only.] Also, the AMI anthrax was said to be surprisingly widely spread throughout the entire AMI building, suggesting that it had also been treated to prevent clumping.

I gather you think otherwise (that is, that there were two different batches of anthrax of different grades, or maybe three -- (1) Boca Raton, (2) New York TV networks and NY Post, (3) Sens. Daschle and Leahy).

Am I missing something in my argument that all the anthrax was of a similar grade and came from a single batch?