[thinden]

The medium-range BM-21 missiles - which travel 15 miles - were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire," U.S. officials said, according to NPR.

suppose this could have been the cause of Gulf War Syndrome?

[thoughtomator]

I know very little of the biological interactions of nerve agents, but I do know that many victims of "Gulf War Syndrome" came down with a condition that closely resembles ALS (aka "Lou Gherig's Disease") - which is a degenerative nerve disease. It's not too farfetched to believe nerve gas could cause a nerve disease, is it?