Terrorism anthrax, weaponizing

In the United States a more recent biological terrorism attack occurred in 2001 when letters laced with infectious anthrax were delivered to news media offices and the US Congress. The letters killed five people . While many believed this attack to be in relation to Iraq s development of biological weapons, the anthrax strand used seemed to indicated a domestic source. 

The use of viral and microbial pathogens as weapons is prohibited by international treaties. However its feasibility cannot be ignored after the acts of terrorism on and after 9/11, as well as the anthrax attack through the mail system in the aftermath of 9/11, which led to the death of five persons in the United States. To protect against acts by terrorists, a proteomic approach has been initiated to understand the proteomics of such pathogens as well... 

This terror organization has been, and still is, the most significant one worldwide, in terms of bioterrorism, especially that it was involved, most probably, in the Sept. 2001 anthrax letter attack. In the mid-1990s, while being sheltered in Sudan, its head, Osama bin Laden, financed, in part, the construction of BW (and CW) facilities in Sudan. Later on, members of al-Qaeda were apparently trained in Iraq (by its intelligence apparatus) for BW (and other nonconventional weapons) employment. In 1998, relationship with Iraqi intelligence was established, so as to obtain... 

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