I don't think these
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approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent
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would be that "smoking gun". Nothing short of fully functional long-range missiles with fins, loaded with deadly toxic chemical, biological and nuclear materials of unimaginable destructive capacity would suffice. I do wonder about the specificity of the characterization of these recovered weapons as "Pre Gulf War", maybe the source is concerned over whether the weapons were actually precluded at some point over their useful life.