31.   Officials also link nationalist groups, which battle among each other for territory and influence, to island mafia.

32.   Police have not determined who was responsible, but government officials had linked it to the U.S. anti-terror attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan five days before.

33.   Russia also has been plagued this summer by a string of bomb attacks on public transportation, which some officials have linked to Chechen rebels.

34.   Some officials have linked the attacks to Chechen rebels fighting Moscow for independence for their homeland.

35.   The cases have not been linked by officials.

36.   The officials found information linked to a name on the manifest of one of the hijacked flights.

37.   The officials linked the bombs to the one that destroyed the bus, saying they apparently were meant to target Serb convoys.

38.   The poisonings at Lake Powell remained unconnected for a decade until federal officials linked the carbon monoxide to the drowning last summer of two Colorado boys there.

39.   U.S. officials have linked al-Qaida to that bombing.

40.   U.S. intelligence officials linked the plant to Iraqi scientists on Monday as part of an effort to back its justification for bombing the factory last Thursday.