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...there are few clues and even less hard evidence to suggest who might be responsible. But in the popular mind, the leading suspect is Aum Shinrikyo, the apocalyptic cult whose messianic leader, Shoko Asahara, has eluded a nationwide police hunt since the subway attacks two weeks ago. Although no legal proof links Aum to either case, the circumstantial evidence is mounting dramatically...
Shortly after the shooting, anonymous callers telephoned TV stations to warn that more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs...
...building owned by thereligious cult suspected in the Mar. 20 Tokyo subway attacksthat killed 11 people and injured about 5,000 others, according to media reports. A chemical called methylphosphon acid monoisopropyl, which can only be created when sarin decomposes, was found in a laboratory that belongs to the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) sect on Friday, NHK television and the Yomiuri newspaper said. Though police have so far found chemical stockpiles that include all the ingredients of sarin, sophisticated laboratory equipment, secret plants and documents, they have yet to find enough evidence to pin the attacks on the cult.The...
...Kariya's kidnapping and providing innocent household explanations for the seized chemicals. "I don't understand," he concluded, "why it's said that these can be used to make sarin." A second video was recorded for cult followers and played at 36 local chapters. In it Asahara claimed that Aum members, including himself, had been the object of a poison-gas attack. The origin was "unmistakably...
...some, the sense of dread extends beyond the fear of more sarin, reaching deep into the nature of Aum and the sort of person Aum attracts, whether the cult was behind the killings or not. There is a word for a certain kind of young person in Japan: otaku, which translates as obsessed to the point of being asocial, almost communally autistic. The word describes a whole generation of children for whom family life barely exists: father is always at work, and child is at cram school, preparing for the next exam. The father often does it because he remembers...