Although both sides have issued extravagant and unverifiable claims, the casualties on the battlefield are believed to run into the thousands.

That last claim, unverifiable, is nonetheless no longer absurd.

There is some current discussion about this as the Subud association does not aim to be secretive, but also wants to avoid making unverifiable claims.

In a hodgepodge not unusual in the intelligence world, the Aug. 6 item about Al Qaeda's plans cited facts and unverifiable claims as evidence.

It has a huge environmental impact statement, but critics say that in its current form, the statement makes many unverifiable claims.

During his 1950s imprisonment and interrogation by the Securitate secret police, Lecca made some unverifiable claims about the massacre.

Eliade's own version of events, presenting his involvement in far right politics as marginal, was judged to contain several inaccuracies and unverifiable claims.

"Some too," the man continued, "have arrived with unverifiable claims, hidden as they were behind impenetrable armors."

I don't think your testimony, based entirely on your unverifiable claim as a torch that Makepeace is a liar, should be allowed to stand unchallenged.

They rely on conflicting and equally unverifiable claims from Pentagon briefings and Taliban news conferences, and are increasingly unwilling to believe either side.