Anthrax - Where the Fuck did that come from? Source of US attacks still uncertain
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Issue 1 March 2007 , pages 79 - 105 (ISSN: 1521-0561 (electronic) 0885-0607 (paper)
Curious report about Antrax at News Details Monday May 28th 2007
"....the very fact that the late 2001 anthrax letters attack on the United States has still not been solved is no less meaningful and important than that unprecedented act of bioterrorism itself....In contrast to the wealth of empirical data collected and published with respect to the specific anthrax Ames strain of the 2001 letter attack, the resultant medical cases, and the dispersal of the SSP, a relative paucity of information has been brought out regarding the structure and composition of the SSP itself. That still poses an enigmatic, extremely complex intelligence issue that needs to be elucidated, for numerous reasons. "
"Matsumoto (Matsumoto, Gary - "Anthrax Powder: State of the Art?," Science, Vol. 302, 27 November 2003, pp. 1492-1497. ) accentuates "a technique used to anchor silica nanoparticles to the surface of spores , a silica dust called Aerosil and an Aerosil variant called Cab-O-Sil," which was tested by U.S. Army laboratories. He points out, as well, that "Iraq's chemical and biological warfare labs imported tons of both Cab-O-Sil and Aerosil ," and notes, referring to the benign anthrax-simulant germ Bacillus (Bacills) globigii (BG), that "the Danish company Chris-Hansen sprayed-dried the spores (along with an unidentified "additive") about 100 times more concentrated then the U.S. Army's old BG powder mixed silica into the powder - that silica being a product sold commercially under the name Sipernat D13 made by Germany's Degussa AG, the same company that makes Aerosil." Such technical footprints may latently bear invaluable intelligence."
"At any rate, all this is but the tip of the iceberg. Facing an increasing Iranian and Islamist technical intelligence assault, non-Islamic countries must establish effective methods to protect information and materials that are classified, concern - directly or indirectly - militarily critical technologies, are subject to export controls, or are proprietary assets that are the intellectual property of a specific firm or individual."
A dense , well documented paper which requires careful reading.... also http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17223140.300-trail-of-terror.html — New Scientist I Bioterrorism I Trail of terror (Subscription) 27th October 2001
