21.   Authorities said they were checking whether the slayings were related but did not mention any possible tie to drug traffickers operating in the area.

22.   Bouterse has denied any links to drug traffickers.

23.   Castillo Pombo, who resigned last year amid accusations of having links to drug traffickers, authorized the cars to be loaned, the report said.

24.   Colombian rebels are believed to earn hundreds of millions of dollars through their links to drug traffickers.

25.   Denying links to drug traffickers, Raul Salinas has said the money in the Swiss accounts was an investment fund pooled by several wealthy friends.

26.   In many cases, common criminals seem to have picked up the kind of secrecy and eliminate-all-witnesses attitude long exhibited by drug traffickers.

27.   It is also a base for leftist guerrillas with ties to drug traffickers.

28.   Little hard evidence has come from news stories investigating alleged Uribe ties to drug traffickers.

29.   Many believe the U.S. government would like to see Villanueva prosecuted for alleged links to drug traffickers.

30.   Mario Ruiz Massieu is not the first high-ranking Mexican official to be suspected of links to drug traffickers.