[CPEO-MEF] BIODEFENSE: "Scientific data points to government-made anthrax"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Scientific data points to government-made anthrax

Frederick News-Post (MD)
September 15, 2013

FBI documents released to the public in 2011 contain strong evidence  
that the anthrax spores used in the letter attacks of 2001 had been  
prepared previously for U.S. biodefense purposes. We have recently  
compiled and analyzed the documents, which contain some 10,000 pages  
of scientific data, in the "Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense."

Although genetic analysis indicates that anthrax spores in a flask at  
the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases are  
the likely parental source from which the letter spores were grown,  
the USAMRIID spores do not contain two extraneous chemical elements  
and a non-anthrax type of spore found by the FBI in the letter  
anthrax; nor has evidence been found at USAMRIID for any use of these  
items.

The two chemical elements, tin and silicon, must have been added to  
process the letter spores following their growth, for the toxicity of  
tin would have prevented growth, and the uniquely high silicon  
content of the spores has never been replicated during growth. The  
two chemicals are components of a well-known type of protective  
coating called silicone (a complex substance containing the element  
silicon). Silicone has been used in the past to encapsulate  
pharmaceuticals in order to protect them from inactivation by  
external hazards without impairing their biological action.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/crime/ 
article_ba94ae84-4b8f-589e-af97-f20743937956.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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