Weapons-grade anthrax? Think Russia, not necessarily Iraq: ‘ If the finger of suspicion falls on any one country “the obvious

one is Russia, it’s a league ahead of Iraq”, said David Kelly, a

senior adviser to UN weapons inspectors for Iraq…

Unemployed top Russian scientists who helped to run the

Soviet Union’s illegal and secret germ warfare programme

appear to be a likely source of the anthrax outbreak in the

United States. It is known that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qa’ida

network has tried to buy ingredients for weapons of mass

destruction in Russia in recent years.’ Independent UK