But missing from them was the sort of connectedness to a more collective form of unrest, which seems to have linked recent incidents, even if only in theory.
Two of the three had trained in Pakistan and all seem to have links with the Islamic Jihad Union, which staged several terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan in 2004.
"All politics are local," it has been observed - and Gordon Brown seemed to have links with towns all over the country.
But Mr. Ashcroft pointed to several who seemed to have links to the 19 men suspected of hijacking the four planes used in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Caveney has discovered evidence that both seem to have had links with prominent Catholic sympathisers of the period and were further connected with supporters of the Earl of Essex's rebellion in 1601.
The case is one of the first criminal cases in which the federal authorities seem to have directly linked terrorism suspects in the United States to a former Pakistani military officer, though they have long suspected connections between extremists and many members of the Pakistani military.
Through its own sensuality a sign always indicated a change in the body, but these authors seem not to have linked any sign automatically to a particular disease.
Born within a week of each other – Murray is the elder of the two – their paths seem to have been inextricably linked ever since.
