Word: attackon
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...total lack of sympathy for Israel'ssecurity...is especially shocking given that theseconcerns have been validated recently by multipleterrorist bombings of Israeli civilians and thePalestinian people's support for an Iraqi attackon Israel just a few months ago," Silversteinsaid...
Four hours into a 1,000-officermanhunt, Japanese police last night arrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader charged Monday with murder in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting...
...poisonous. No one was seriously injured. TIME Japan correspondent Irene Maciulis-Kunii said that some in Japan are even seeing this as the perfect terrorist attack: "You make your point, and nobody really gets hurt."Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspected in the Mar. 20nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways, immediately denied involvement. Police said they believe the attack differs enough from the one in Tokyo to be a copycat crime. People affected by the fumes today complained of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness, but there were no reports of serious or life-threatening injuries...
Japanese police today arrested the security chief of thecultsuspected inlast month's nerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 11 people. Tomomitsu Niimi, 31, was charged with kidnapping a 29-year-old woman who says he drugged her and kept her in a freight container for three months because she was trying to leave the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In a Moscow court yesterday, a teenager who once belonged to the cult said the sect had tested nerve gas on its Russian followers...
...explosive sodium without a required permit. The arrests came one day after National Police Agency head Takaji Kunimatsu was shot four times by a masked gunman who used a revolver and got away on a bicycle. The cult is suspected -- but denies involvement -- in last week'snerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 people and sickened thousands. The shooting of Kunimatsu, now hospitalized in serious condition, prompted police to step up their hunt for cult leader Shoko Asahara. Police reportedly want to ask Asahara whether highly educated scientists within the cult made the lethal nerve gas used...