AFIP announced that silica was the key aerosol enabling component used in the Daschle anthrax.
Your fantasies about elaborate conspiracies plotted between AFIP and the Whitehouse to falsely claim silica was present are the ravings of a madman.
When people fail to notice a simple mistake made in a tense situation, it is NOT an "elaborate conspiracy." But, you know that, don't you?
Whose "elaborate conspiracy" is this report from today's Danbury News-Times part of?
This is one of the reasons many countries have considered anthrax as a weapon of bioterrorism. The spores can stay in the environment for a long time. And because it's not a communicable disease, it has the advantage of not starting a plague that could circle the globe and infect the people who started the attack.
"That's one of the challenges of anthrax," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior analyst at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "The spores are very resistant."
The 2001 letters -- while scary -- did not involve weaponized anthrax, Nuzzo said.
"To weaponize it, you make it more lethal. It has to make people sicker, or stay in the air longer, so more people breath it in," Nuzzo said.
She seems to be confirming what FBI Scientist Douglas Beecher said about how the 2001 anthrax powders "were comprised simply of spores purified to different extents." That's enough to be very lethal.
Does this mean you are now going to just mindlessly quote AFIP again?