Did Mr. Lewis interview any foreign diplomats in Khartoum?
It appears from the programme that Mr Lewis and his crew spent some time in Khartoum in the days and weeks after the American attack on the al- Shifa pharmaceutical factory. He simply cannot have been unaware of the deep reservations expressed by important foreign diplomats in Khartoum about the very claims which formed the basis of his documentary. These reservations have been extensively publicised. It was reported, for example, that the German ambassador to Sudan, Werner Daum, had immediately contradicted United States claims about the factory. In a communication to the German foreign ministry, he stated: “One can’t, even if one wants to, describe the Shifa firm as a chemical factory.” (12) The German ambassador also stated that the factory had no disguise and there was nothing secret about the site. (13) ‘The Guardian’ interviewed a senior European diplomat who said stated that since the end of the Gulf War, Sudan had been strictly monitored in accord with the chemical weapons prec
