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March 31, 2005
The BBC Knew
Glenn points to CounterColumn's observation that the BEEB isn't straight with their reporting.
I thought it might be useful to see what the BEEB itself reported about malnutrition in Iraq before the war began. Here's what I found:
Child death rate doubles in Iraq
They found that in south and central Iraq, infant mortality had risen to 108 per 1,000 between 1994 and 1999, while child mortality - covering those between one and five years - rocketed from 56 to 131 per 1,000.
Iraqi children suffer severe malnutrition, UN
The report found that child mortality rates had more than doubled in the last ten years. Iraq's health ministry said that more than ten thousand Iraqis, mainly young children, died in July because of the international sanctions imposed on the country following its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Iraq says the sanctions are killing thousands of children and have called for an immediate end to them.According to the UN children's charity, UNICEF, about half a million children under the age of five have died in Iraq since the sanctions were imposed.
UN to investigate Iraqi suffering
Unicef said that more than a million Iraqi children were malnourished and child mortality rates had soared since the imposition of sanctions. It blamed both the sanctions and Iraqi government policies.
So when the BBC falsely reports doubled malnutrition rates in Iraq, they certainly cannot claim ignorance.
Posted by bubba138 at March 31, 2005 04:00 PM