BBC admits Iraqi deaths error

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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12096511%255E1702,00.html

BBC admits Iraqi deaths error
From correspondents in London
30jan05

THE BBC apologised today for erroneously reporting that US-led and Iraqi forces might be responsible for the deaths of 60 per cent of Iraqi civilians killed in conflict over the past six months.

The British broadcaster said in broadcasts and a news release that its Panorama investigative show would air a report citing "confidential" records from Iraq's health ministry to support the contention.

Iraq's health minister said the BBC misinterpreted the statistics it had received and had ignored statements from the ministry clarifying the figures.

"Today, the Iraqi Ministry of Health has issued a statement clarifying matters that were the subject of several conversations with the BBC before the report was published, and denying that this conclusion can be drawn from the figures relating to 'military operations'," the BBC said in a news statement today.........