Each one hoped that the place he claimed panned out well - had some gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

In the first round, more than a million ballots, most of them for Mr.Karzai, were declared fraudulent by the U.N.-run Election Complaints Commission, depriving Mr.Karzai of what he claimed was an outright electoral victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

As he grew older, he always claimed to be thirty-nine years old.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Scott claimed he was free because he had lived in free territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The AMISOM spokesperson claimed he did not have knowledge of ship's cargo, but the boat was reportedly en route from Dubai.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In one case,British resident Binyam Mohamed claimed he was tortured while in custody in Pakistan and Morocco and he says British officers knew.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

He had claimed the Chechen leader personally tortured him with electric shocks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Nkunda claimed he was fighting to protect ethnic Congolese Tutsis from the FDLR, another rebel group made up of remnants of the former Rwandan military and militias that carried out the genocide here Many Tutsis, both in Congo and in Rwanda, still see Nkunda as a hero.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18