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When they finally found Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, he was hiding in the dark, lying alone in a space not much bigger than a coffin. For four hours police had searched the unlighted interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a warehouse in an Aum compound near Mount Fuji. Then an investigator tapped on a wall and found a hollow spot. Police cut in with an electric saw and discovered a bearded man in a deep pink pajama suit lying in a compartment about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. high...
...Shoko Asahara?" asked the police. "Yes, I am," Asahara replied. "What are you doing here?" they inquired. "I've been here for two days meditating and recuperating," he said. When police started to climb in to remove him, he warned them off. "I'll come out myself. No one, not even my followers, is allowed to touch...
...Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse that he has predicted for 1997.WANT TO BE IN PICTURES? A bizarre twist in the case came with a report from another major Tokyo daily saying cult leaders lured new members, mostly day laborers, to the cult's compound with a promise that they...
...leadership in a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation that cult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse that he has predicted for 1997.WANT TO BE IN PICTURES? A bizarre twist in the case came with a report from another major Tokyo daily saying cult leaders lured new members, mostly day laborers, to the cult's compound with a promise that they...
Having already pleaded illness and ignorance in the gas attack, Asahara today turned to flattery, telling his interrogators "You investigators look really cool, like detectives in TV dramas...