GERMANY'S AMBASSADOR TO SUDAN WRITES THAT "IT IS DIFFICULT TO ASSESS HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS POOR AFRICAN COUNTRY DIED AS A CONSEQUENCE OF A DESTRUCTION OF THE AL-SHIFA FACTORY, BUT SEVERAL TENS OF THOUSANDS SEEMS A REASONABLE GUESS" (WERNER DAUM, "UNIVERSALISM AND THE WEST," HARVARD INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, SUMMER 2001). noam chomsky.