The assertion directly contradicted Mr. Meese's accounts about the matter.

That assertion contradicts the case that was built against them by the Central Bureau of Investigation and that is still pending in India's slow-moving legal system.

The assertion contradicts Mr. Bush's statements that he knew of the arms sales but not of their connection to the hostages.

"Such an assertion would contradict the whole experience of mankind."

His assertions in an interview this week contradicted the Foreign Ministry's denial at the time that there had been any trouble.

Miller's assertion regarding that the Junín Hussars were in his division contradicts what Sucre says in the part.

He maintained that the transmitter employed in these tests had not been properly adjusted - an assertion directly contradicted by the experimenters.

The assertions contradicted Government statements that the lawyer, Abdel Harith Madani, 30, was not tortured by police officers and died of natural causes.

The two inspectors said their van could not drive over dirt roads - an assertion their driver unwittingly contradicted.

That assertion contradicts repeated statements by the Bush administration and American officials in Iraq.