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Anthrax: Investigation Could Reveal U.S. Offensive Program, Expert Says A leading biological weapons expert has said the person responsible for last fall’s anthrax attacks could have been involved in U.S. anthrax research, which could indicate the existence of a U.S. offensive biological weapons program, the Dallas Morning News reported yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 26). The anthrax used in the attacks probably came from the U.S. military’s anthrax research program, Stanford University biologist Stephen Brock said last month during a speech before the American Physical Society. “Nearly all the clues so far point to the possibility that this was in fact a domestic source, an inside job,” Brock said. The potency of the anthrax used could mean it was made through the U.S. weaponization process, considered by experts to be “optimal,” Brock said. “It appears from all reports so far that this was a powder made with the so-called optimal U.S. recipe,” he said. “That meant they either had to have information from the United States or maybe they were the United States.” If the perpetrator of the attacks was involved in U.S. anthrax research, that could “raise the serious possibility that the United States may be violating” the Biological Weapons Convention, Brock said. The FBI might suspect who conducted the attacks but might be holding back because of the knowledge that person has, Brock said. “The FBI, after all these months, has still not arrested anybody,” he said. “It’s possible, as has been suggested, that they may be standing back because the person involved with it may have secret information that the United States government would not like to have divulged” (Tom Siegfried, Dallas Morning News, April 2).
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