11.   Both sides tend to exaggerate enemy losses.

12.   But the casualty claims are impossible to verify, and both sides usually exaggerate enemy losses and underreport their own.

13.   On Tuesday, North Korea bitterly criticized a Japanese newspaper which had accused the North of exaggerating losses from the flooding to receive more international aid.

14.   Russian artillery and attack jets bomb and strafe suspected rebel positions in eastern Chechnya daily, and both sides in the conflict routinely exaggerate enemy losses.

15.   The claim could not be independently confirmed, and both sides regularly exaggerate enemy losses.

16.   There is no way to check the conflicting claims, but both sides tend to exaggerate losses inflicted on each other.

17.   There was no confirmation of the attack from the federal side, and both sides routinely exaggerate enemy losses.

18.   There is no way to check the conflicting claims, but both sides tend to exaggerate losses inflicted on the other.

19.   Chechen separatists frequently exaggerate Russian losses.

20.   Each side has habitually exaggerated the losses of its adversary and minimised its own.