The story, based on a U.N. report, appears at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4395525.stm

But a much fuller treatment is at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12923-2005Mar30.html


"[Jean]Ziegler [a U.N. "specialist on hunger"] did not mention the role of Iraq's insurgency in the nutrition problem, something often cited by aid groups." In the words of the BBC, Ziegler simply blames "the war led by coalition forces."

According to the Washington Post story, "The authors of the [source]report in the British-based medical journal The Lancet - researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad - conceded their data were of 'limited precision.'"

Ziegler's report is not focused specifically on Iraq but on hunger around the world.