An Arkansas-China-Iraq connection?
That would be quite unexpected.
Just a couple of things here. Detrick did share Ames with Porton Down, but Iraq didn't receive *any* anthrax from Porton Down (or from anywhere in the UK) after the mid-eighties. We can rule out universities and private labs as being the source of the the spores, and the strain. It may be possible the strain was acquired from a private or universtiy lab, but I doubt it.
"It was a primitive process, but it was a workable process. I would say that they are not highly trained professionals," Alibek said of whoever sent the anthrax letters.
When Ken Alibek talks, people should listen. He is talking about the means of delivery, and people who actually mailed the letters, not the people who produced the spores.
As far as the China-Iraq connection -- it's an interesting speculation, but I don't think China is involved in this.