Saddam’s Anthrax - Made in the USA

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Scott Ritter - The Guardian, Friday October 19 2001
Don't blame Saddam for this one - There is no evidence to suggest Iraq is behind the anthrax attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/19/iraq.anthrax

Iraq procured the Vollum strain of anthrax from American Type Culture Collection, a company based in Rockville, Maryland, which provides commercially available viruses - such as anthrax - to consumers worldwide. While Iraq had investigated other strains, including those indigenous to the country, it was the Vollum strain that Iraq mass-produced for weapon use. It is a unique, highly virulent form of anthrax, and its use would represent the kind of link needed to suggest Iraq as a likely source [for the 2001 attacks].


The Times - August 9, 2005
Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article553135.ece

An ear from the cow was sent to an English laboratory, where scientists discovered anthrax spores that were later used in secret biological warfare tests by Winston Churchill. The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator’s choice in his attempts to create biological weapons.

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Edit; I think after rereading that it's probably more accurate to say the anthrax was isolated in the UK, but supplied by the USA to Saddam.