[Medium Rare]

The article is a mixture of truth and disinformation obviously meant to lead to the conclusion that a foreign government is responsible, i.e. Iraq.

The U.S. is the only producer of the one trillion spores per gram aerosolized anthrax. The process is patented (secret patents) by William Patrick. The anthrax has been produced by Battelle Memorial Institute at the army facility in Dugway, Utah and in Battelle's own facility at West Jefferson, Ohio. Both Patrick and Ken Alibek are consultants to Battelle and the CIA on bio/chemical weapons and specifically anthrax.

If you go to the Washington Post site you will see a link beside this article that purports to show all the possible sources in the world.

The map in the graphic shows a number of sites around the world including one that corresponds to Fort Detrick. The only problem is that none of those sites are known to have the capability of producing the one trillion spores per gram.

The only two sites that have that capability (Battelle's two sites in Utah and Ohio)are missing from the map.

I would call that disinformation by omission.

[okie01]

"The only two sites that have that capability (Battelle's two sites in Utah and Ohio)are missing from the map."

Your source, sir?

[piasa]

Ken Alibek is an ex-Soviet Kazackh scientist who worked in the Biopreparat program in Russia, (Under a slightly different name since he Americanized his name to Ken Alibek when he published his book Biohazard.)

If he's the consultant our companies have hired, there's a reason: he would be the one to ask for information from the Russian Biopreparat program- in short, the Russians were fully capable of producing the stuff. And if they were, Iraq is, since Iraq hires Russian scientists too.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your post and for sharing your analysis!

I recall that the Patrick method was discovered a very long time ago. Is it not possible that Iraq could have developed an alternate method in the meantime?