Army says small operation made anthrax used in 2001 attacks
Emergency Management Alert, April 15, 2003
U.S. Army scientists determined the anthrax powder used in the deadly 2001 postal attacks was made with inexpensive equipment and limited expertise, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Researchers at the Army's biodefense center at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah found that a small operation produced the anthrax at a cost of no more than a few thousand dollars. This reinforced an existing FBI theory that renegade scientists likely produced the anthrax, not a military program such as Iraq's, the paper reports.
A former United Nations weapons inspector told the Sun the Army research failed to match the exact purity and small particle size of the mailed anthrax, so the FBI should not rule out Iraq or other states as the source of the powder.
Anthrax-laced letters mailed from New Jersey to Congress and media organizations in September and October 2001 killed five people and sickened 17 others. A federal probe later focused on Steven Hatfill, a germ warfare expert who once worked at a federal bio-defense center in Maryland, but no charges have been filed against him.
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