Unholy Reuters/UN Alliance of Lies

Think that header sounds strong? Try this on for size...Reuters headline http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20050330/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraq_malnutrition reads as follows:
Expert: Malnutrition Affects Iraq Kids

And who is this expert? One Jean Zigler, who Reuters reports as saying:

"Malnutrition among the youngest Iraqis has almost doubled since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, a hunger specialist told the U.N. human rights body "

"The situation facing Iraqi youngsters is "a result of the war led by coalition forces," said Ziegler, an outspoken Swiss sociology professor and former lawmaker"

And the Big Lie:

"Ziegler also cited an October 2004 U.S. study that estimated as many as 100,000 more Iraqis — many of them women and children — had died since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq"

Reuters points out the following:

"Ziegler did not mention the role of Iraq's insurgency in the nutrition problem, something often cited by aid groups"

And:

The authors of the 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"

SO WHY PRINT THE FREAKIN'ARTICLE, COMPLETE WITH IMFLAMMATORY ANTI-AMERICAN HEADLINE, IF EVERYTHING YOUR SOURCE SAYS IS DEMONSTRABLY UNTRUE??

Now, had al-Reuters done even the slightest amount of digging, they would have found this:
http://www.unwatch.org/speeches/ReleaseZieglerOctober.html . I quote:

"...a far-left parliamentarian in Switzerland for many years, Mr. Ziegler is well known in Europe for his anti-American and anti-Israel politics"

And, most damnably:

"A case against Mr. Ziegler for bias and abuse of mandate is pending before the UN Commission on Human Rights. In a legal brief filed with the Commission in July, UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO, accused Ziegler of singling out Israel alone for repeated and unfair condemnation. “Ziegler routinely ignores the 35 countries listed on the UN’s Food Emergency list,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. “Instead he is obsessed with the Palestinian territories, which have never ranked as a food emergency on any list.”
The brief argues that Ziegler breached his obligations as a UN expert to act with impartiality, non-selectivity and objectivity."

A whole article of anti-Americanism, based on an "expert" who is under investigation by his own agency for being a liar.
Un-flippin'-believeable.
Al-Reuters strikes again...impartial my ass.