16 Labs Had the Killer Anthrax Strain
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/16-labs-had-killer-anthrax-strain.html
Page 6 of the FBI's search warrant affidavit in the Ivins' investigation states:
"Of the sixteen domestic government, commercial, and university laboratories that virulent RMR-1029 Ames strain Bacillus antrhracis material in their inventory prior to the attacks. ...."
As the Baltimore Sun summarizes it:
"The government said that 16 government, commercial and university labs had the strain of anthrax with the same genetic mutations as the anthrax used in the attacks.
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And even at Fort Detrick, the government said that more than 100 people had access to the flask, creating a lot of room for reasonable doubt."
According to the Washington Post, the other labs obtained the RMR-1029 from Ivins:
"The FBI determined that Ivins had shared samples of his RMR-1029 bacteria with as many as 15 other labs and institutes nationwide."
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FBI "Case" So Full Of Holes
Even the Washington Post, in an editorial, was not very satisfied with the FBI's press conference.
Ivins' supposed "obsession" with a college sorority sounds like something from a grade B slasher movie.