[Ada Coddington]

How does a letter mailed from Pakistan implicate the Pakistani government? If that were the case, would the several anthrax-laced letters mailed in the United States implicate the U.S. government? Don't succumb to bad logic, please.

It doesn't. Would require more proof. What we have is a Pakistani suspect whom we cannot find in the Trenton mailings and at least one mailing from Pakistan. I think the chances of the anthrax coming from a government lab are more likely than from a individual or private group.

[dirtboy]

What we have is a Pakistani suspect whom we cannot find in the Trenton mailings and at least one mailing from Pakistan.

Actually, the Pakistani mailing turned out to not have anthrax, so this discussion becomes moot anyway.

I think the chances of the anthrax coming from a government lab are more likely than from a individual or private group.

Well, if a group has enough money, there are plenty of scientists from the former Soviet Union who are being paid eighty dollars a month and who probably would leap at the money paid to start a clandestine bioterror lab - so IMO nothing can be ruled out. But if I were at the track, I would bet on a state-lab pony over the others.