Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army’s Stocks. This is in direct contradiction to a government spokesperson’s claim that the terrorist anthrax was of a different strain than the weaponized anthrax the US has recently produced at Dugway (secretly, and in violation of the US commitment to refrain from production of biological weapons), about which I wrote below.

Genetic fingerprinting studies indicate that the anthrax spores mailed to Capitol Hill are identical to stocks of the deadly bacteria maintained by the U.S. Army since 1980, according to scientists familiar with the most recent tests.

Although many laboratories possess the Ames strain of anthrax involved in this fall’s bioterrorist attacks, only five laboratories so far have been found to have spores with perfect genetic matches to those in the Senate letters, the scientists said. And all those labs can trace back their samples to a single U.S. military source: the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md. Washington Post