1.   In Washington, meanwhile, US officials were trying to determine whether the hijackers were linked to the Saudi-born, anti-American terrorist bin Laden.

2.   Inside the apartment, sources said, were documents and photographs linking the hijackers to the witnesses.

3.   He said the document, released Friday, also was clear evidence linking the hijackers.

4.   In a later broadcast, Tehran radio claimed the hijacker was linked to Israel.

5.   Other hijackers have been linked to the U.A.E. by their passports.

6.   Meanwhile, a spokesman for Chechen independence leader Dzhokhar Dudayev said the ferry hijackers were not linked with the separatists, the ITAR-TASS agency said.

7.   Reports linked the hijacker to the doomsday cult blamed for a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March, but government officials said this was not confirmed.