21.   It is the first time a suspect overseas has been directly linked by officials to the hijackers.

22.   Katrina Robertson Reed, associate superintendent for employee services, was placed on paid leave last week, though officials did not link that to the health insurance foul-up.

23.   Le Jour said officials had linked Boadu to Lebanese businessman Roger Nasra, who allegedly tried to defraud the Ivorian government of millions of dollars.

24.   Many officials have linked the apartment building blasts on Monday and last Thursday to the fighting in Dagestan.

25.   Many officials linked the two apartment building blasts to the fighting in Dagestan, which neighbors breakaway Chechnya.

26.   Meanwhile, a top Palestinian official linked the Palestinian fight against Israel to terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden for the first time.

27.   Military officials also linked Barayev to several raids on Russian checkpoints and pro-Moscow Chechen police, and he had reportedly been targeted in military operations before.

28.   Officials have linked the previous attacks to Muslim militants targeting France for its support of the military-installed government in Algeria.

29.   Officials immediately linked the slaying to a series of killings carried out by militant Basque separatists.

30.   Officials have linked PROCUP to numerous bombings, robberies and assaults in Mexico.