In the 4 September 2001 New York Times article, we read
<< ... the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax ....
... the West Jefferson, Ohio, laboratory of the Battelle Memorial Institute, a military contractor that has been selected to create the genetically altered anthrax. >>
There is more on Battelle, but that's all I'll trouble to quote.
Remembering.....
As I said more than two months ago, in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165194/posts?page=47#47:
<< OTOH what if they're actually investigating domestic perps or highly placed domestic perps in collusion with foreign ones?
They are. You can take it to the bank.
The 2002 Science article demonstrated that the anthrax that killed Bob Stevens was very closely related to a known sample from USAMRIID, Ft Detrick.
Rumours floating around are that the anthrax utilised in 2001 was not directly from Ft Detrick. The line had passed through Battelle after twas at USAMRIID. >>
I say this confirms what I said and also it makes one lean toward the importance of the Times article to the case.