11.   They charge the Pentagon, which discounts their claims, is engaged in a cover-up.

12.   Police said they have discounted claims by some witnesses that Hagland had been fatally injured by a passing bus while fighting the two men.

13.   Both the White House and the Kremlin have discounted his claims.

14.   Both U.S. and Russian officials have discounted the claims by the retired general.

15.   Caribbean leaders on Thursday outlined the assistance they hoped to gain during an aid-seeking trip to Libya, discounting claims the trip could anger the United States.

16.   Egypt on Monday discounted a claim by a Muslim militant that Sudan was not involved in a failed assassination attempt on President Hosni Mubarak last June.

17.   For years the Pentagon discounted claims that mysterious illnesses cited by Gulf War veterans could be tied to toxic exposures.

18.   It discounted claims by officials that the attack resulted from a private land dispute.

19.   Prosecutors discounted his claims that he could show that the Cuban government aided his shipping of Colombian cocaine.