I'm not worried abouyt mustard gaz either - WWI is ample proof that if you want large scale effects out of it, you need a lot of it. As in 'truckloads'. Sure you can use some to spice up a bomb or the like, but there's no way you can get a city-wide effect from a terrorist group...
More modern nasties like Sarin are another matter, as you ned far less to acheive significant results, but it seems there wasn't any in Lybia.
Note that it's a bit odd that the rebels managed to get their hand on that much hardware still neatly packed into the wharehouses. It seems Khadafi's army fell for the common dictator trick : large stockpiles of hardware that looks impressive on paper an buy friends in the manufacturing countries and a shortage of reliable bodies to use said hardware. Also possibly a questionable storage that begs the question of how functionnal said hardware is.
All in all, in my option it's something that should be investigated serisouly, not something to get into the 'wring your hands in terror and yell for all-out action' mode.
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