But the judge said the prosecutor had not successfully linked the defendants to the attack.

In addition, prosecutors announcing the New Jersey indictment linked Mr. Scarfo to seven other underworld murders.

But the prosecutor did not link the translator, Mohamed Yousry, directly to any terrorist act or even to any threat of violence.

It was the first time prosecutors had linked any of the suspects in the two bombing cases to a specific foreign group.

In their opening statement to the jury yesterday, prosecutors linked the conspiracy to the 1993 ambush of American troops in Somalia in which 18 soldiers died.

Since then, prosecutors have linked him to a string of crimes in New York.

On 6 September 1983, the public prosecutor of the USSR formally linked six of the murders thus far committed to the same killer.

The prosecutors could not link Mr. Harris directly to Mr. Ragsdale.

One way or another, your garbage will be recycled by Suburban Carting, which prosecutors have linked to organized crime, and which in 1997 pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

Italian organized-crime families began taking cuts of the business, and prosecutors linked the groups in several cases in the 1990's.