[savedbygrace]

The SAKR-18 has a range of about 20km, approx. 13 miles. That might be one reason the administration isn't touting these as a WMD find. IOW, if they did, they'd get criticized because the range isn't long enough to be a "threat" to the U. S.

We might win that debate in the fine details of the threat they were to U. S. interests in the area, but the sheeple would be yawning. So, we don't go down that path.

Even so, this is a WMD find, and 41 rockets, with indications that there are others out there, certainly qualifies as a stockpile, IMO.

[FesterUSMC]

The report also states they they were working on their rocted technology to make it go farther

[Kirkwood]

WMD is not defined by the delivery system, but on the ability to cause destruction (nearly all definitions of WMDs include destruction of human life). A truck delivery a warhead may be just as effective as a missile or aircraft.

There are many variations of the definition of a WMD, which causes a lot of political problems for people like Bush. Some definitions are very specific to include nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, but others include radiological (non-nuclear radioactive materials such as in dirty bombs) and conventional explosives (such as WTC and OK city, along with 70% of all terrorist incidents).

One problem with all of the definitions of WMD is that you can have the ingredients for a device all located in one place, but unless the intent is to use it as a weapon, it might not be considered a WMD. A fueled aircraft can be used as a WMD if you fly it into a building with tens of thousands of people inside, but otherwise it is not a WMD. Smoke detectors are not a WMD unless you obtained many of them and used their contents to further enhance the radioactivity of a dirty bomb. Pesticides are not a WMD unless you perhaps use them to poison the drinking supply of a city. Castor beans are not a WMD unless you make ricin out of them. So for some instances of WMDs it is impossible to know if a material is a weapon or not unless you have documentation or past use to justify your definition. An artillery shell with sarin gas is obviously a WMD, but a barrel of radioactive waste is simply suspicious.