Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito said last night that individuals with ties to drug trafficking and powerful politicians and members of the military political were indirectly linked to a supposed scheme to have him murdered. He said that much attention is being given to the case after a youth in Santiago said he was involved in a plot to murder him, Senator Victor Mendez (PRD-Santiago) and others. Dominguez said that the death of one policeman was linked to these groups, and there have been serious confrontations between drug traffickers, with some 40 people dead insettling of accounts in Santiago.