[It wouldn’t be a lie to say that a bomb device was a real bomb device if it had all of the components in it but some critical component was not connected or functional.]
I would be surprised if it had a functioning detonator or more than a token amount of “real” explosives. Wouldn’t do to have a random bit of electrical energy set the thing off and hurt anyone.
You could plug two hot wires from a 120volt outlet into plastic explosives and it wouldn’t do a thing.
But the point was that they can claim that the devices found were “viable bombs” and not be lying so long as all the components were present but the components don’t have to be connected or in working order.