[Cachelot]

while the government emphasizes that the trucks were delivered in the 80's (Kohl), and that the lab equipment was not applicable to chemical warfare.

So we have a German witness (a biowar expert who was in on the project and "saw the mobile labs in operation many times") who says they were aimed at producing biologicals. That was in 1988. Does this mean that in 2000, they expanded the mobile capability to chemical weapons?

[CatoRenasci]

Actually, the story suggests the 2000 labs are biological and the '80s labs were chemical. Maybe we have two sets of labs delivered by our good friends, the Germans.

[longjack]

The BND says they have reliable info that the bio trucks/labs were built around 2000.

The German government is saying the trucks they delivered in the 80's could only detect gas, not produce it, ergo, not our fault. The government seems to be indicating they are not the same trucks / equipment as these Bio trucks of 2000.

The article title refers to GIFT, which is probably translated more as poison, which would indicate gas, IMHO. The title of the article encourages a connection between the BIO trucks and the GAS trucks for me, but I may be reading into it. Other German readers will help, hopefully.

I tried to translate the article as close to verbatim as I could.

longjack