2001 anthrax was simply made, FBI says:

WASHINGTON - Five years after the anthrax attacks that killed five people, the FBI is now convinced that the lethal powder sent to the Senate was simply made and contained nothing that conclusively links the case to any specific source, widening the pool of possible suspects in a frustratingly slow investigation.

The finding, which evolved over months of investigation, appears to undermine the widely held belief that the attack was carried out by a government scientist or someone with access to a U.S. biodefense lab.

What was initially described as a near-military-grade biological weapon was ultimately found to have had a more ordinary pedigree, containing no additives and no signs of special processing to make the anthrax bacteria more deadly, law enforcement officials confirmed. In addition, the strain of anthrax used in the attack has turned out to be more common than was initially thought.

As a result, after a very public focus on government scientists as the likely source of the attack, the FBI is today casting a far wider net, as investigators face the daunting prospect of an almost endless list of suspects in scores of countries around the globe

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