Who cares about numbers, really

Aljazeera reports that the Free Syrian Army announced that it killed 100 Syrian soldiers.  So then they had Riyad Al-As`ad, commander of the Free Syrian Army, on the air: and he said that they killed 135 Syrian army soldiers.  So the anchor asked him how does he know the casualty figure on the enemy side? He said that they controlled an army base for 8 hours and had the time to count their dead.  Kid you not.  I finished watching and learned what I knew not before about press coverage of Syria these days.