11.   Although news reports have said bin Laden funds his operations through a vast international financial empire, former associates have said those claims are exaggerated.

12.   Although press reports have said bin Laden funds his operations through a vast international financial empire, former associates say those claims are exaggerated.

13.   And when a Japanese newspaper suggested the claims might be exaggerated, the North launched vicious diatribes against it.

14.   Anti-Taliban forces tend to exaggerate their claims.

15.   And when the fighting stops, the reports are often rewritten in a way that gives the impression that the military has exaggerated its claims of combat success.

16.   At times rival groups appear to level or exaggerate claims of atrocities for political ends, however.

17.   Both sides have exaggerated claims in the past.

18.   Both sides often exaggerate battlefield claims.

19.   British officials investigating reports of atrocities allegedly committed by Serbian forces in Kosovo said Wednesday that the Kosovars had not exaggerated their claims.

20.   But rebels have said that the Russian claims are exaggerated.