"Taliban Claims Large Civilian Casualties; Afghan Rulers Increase Efforts to Win Support from Islamic World" Edward Cody (Washington Post Foreign Service), October 12, 2001, Page A23

This phrasing questions the Taliban motive for reporting 'large civilian casualties,' and lowers the legitimacy of Taliban casualty count by implying other motives

"Seeking solidarity in the Islamic world and beyond, Afghanistan's beleaguered Taliban rules said today that large numbers of civilians were killed overnight in the heaviest U.S. air raids to date against cities and towns across their battered country."

This headline provides an extremely vague count.

"... the Taliban seemed to be intensifying efforts to reach out fro support in fellow Muslim countries, where news of heavy civilian casualties is likely to fan opposition to the U.S. attacks."

This phrase directly expresses U.S. concern that public response to casualties will hinder Bush's war.

"A Nation Challenged: Death on the Ground; U.S. Raid Kills Unknown Number in an Afghan Village," Barry Bearak, October 13, 2002, Page B1

This headline gives the reader an extremely vague impression and implies that no sources cited in the story are reliable.

"Villages told [the New York Times Reporter] that 53 people had died, though only 22 bodies had yet been pulled from the wreckage. They said the radical Islamic Taliban governmentseemed inclined to inflate the toll.

These headlines lower the legitimacy of villagers' report that 53 people were killed and accuse the Taliban of lying, and disguises deaths by use of the word "toll."