31.   Belgian authorities said Friday that they were investigating possible links between Osama bin Laden and one of the people taken in for questioning.

32.   Belgian authorities said Friday that they were investigating possible links between Osama bin Laden and one of the people taken in to custody.

33.   Bolivian officials are now investigating the links between Paz Zamora, his two sisters, members of his Leftist Revolutionary Movement Party and suspected and convicted cocaine traffickers.

34.   Both men were returned to Guyana this week and it was unclear why police were investigating links to terror links.

35.   But police have investigated a link to Algerian militants.

36.   Dr. Ray Arthur, of the WHO department of communicable diseases, said a large number of the victims were gold miners and a possible link was being investigated.

37.   He said police are investigating suspected links with international terrorist groups, particularly the al-Qaida network directed by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden.

38.   However, Danielsson said security police stepped in to investigate alleged links to the Armed Islamic Group.

39.   In Colombia, Primakov plans to discuss proposals for Russian and Colombian law enforcement officials to cooperate in investigating links between Colombian drug dealers and the Russian mafia.

40.   Italian reports said the European operation was carried out at the request of a Swiss magistrate investigating alleged links between the company and al-Qaida.