Iraq - Child Starvation - BBC Backtracks

Ten days ago I posted this article about a BBC report on the UN Human Rights Commission's report that falsely claimed child hunger had doubled to 8% in Iraq since the war. When in fact the same UN reported this before the war:

Almost half of Iraq’s total population is aged under 18. Even before the conflict began, many children were highly vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. One in four children aged under five is chronically malnourished. One in eight die before their fifth birthday.

That's 25% before the war.

I also pointed out in that and a later post the following:

- the dubious members of the commission such as China, Cuba, Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia

- the earlier UN report that contradicts this latest report

- Ziegler's, who prepared the report, background as an old-school communist.

Ten days later I get this email from the BBC

Thank you for your email and sorry for the delay in replying. We have made further enquiries into this story and have published denials of the UN statistics by the UK and US governments -see link below.

Here is the BBC report noting the UK and US denials of the UN statistics. You will notice in the report that the BBC repeat the false claims by Ziegler and they don't address, at least directly, the issues I raised. The closest they get is to note Kevin Moley, the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, saying "Mr Ziegler had been a long-term critic of the Iraq invasion." Well gee, BBC, it might help us readers if you noted Ziegler is an old-school Communist.

I also note that the original missleading report is still online. Why go half way BBC?
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