You've made an interesting statement, but you've made no substantive criticism of the article. What specific errors, mistakes, mistatements of fact make this article "garbage?" If the guy is wrong, I'd like to know why. If the article is so bad, then the mistakes should be fairly obvious and easy to explain.
Even Iraq seems to know that its liquefied anthrax is virtually useless.
This statement is absolutely false. The full explanation of why should not be discussed here.
Even if the statement were true, obtaining dry powder anthrax is a simple task which would require about $10,000 worth of equipment, including safety equipment to protect against contamination during the process. I used to produce viable dry bacteria by the pound as a routine matter when I was in the business.
The author acts as if the bacterium, itself is the toxin and the effect of the bacterium is proportionante to the the number of bacteria infecting the body, or applied to the body. In reality, it only requires one bacterium to enter the bloodstream and take hold. That bug divides and becomes two bugs every 24 hours or so depending upon the bacterium and the condition of the person's body and resistance. So in ten days you have a thousand, and in 20 days you have a million, all feeding on tissue and producing toxins.
Essentially, the body should be looked upon as a petrie dish with surface barriers to prevent infection. If you put one bacterium on a petrie dish, in several days you come back to look, and the single bacterium has proliferated into a visible spot colony on the dish.
Consequently, in biological warfare there is a lag time between infection and serious disease onset. The lag time is determined by the initial number of bacteria first entering the body and the division rate of the bacterium. If you get a large number of entries into the body initially, the person becomes incapacitated sooner. If the initial number of entries is small, lag time between infection and incapacitation is longer.
One way or another, it only takes one bacterium to form a base for development of the disease.
It isn't worth my time away from other projects to discuss it further.