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...could have been horrific. To triumph in that war, the cult built a series of munitions factories within its complex at the foot of Mount Fuji. Aum researchers were trying to develop germ weapons -- including the Ebola virus -- and an assembly line was about to produce automatic rifles. Behind one building's false walls was a $700,000 lab able to turn out 60 to 80 kg a month of the nerve gas sarin -- enough to kill 6 million to 8 million people. One plan called for releasing the sarin over Tokyo from 1.65-m-long remote-controlled helicopters. Asahara...
...than $1 billion -- and an inner circle of Ph.D.s that was split into groups to produce conventional arms, chemical weapons, biological weapons and drugs. The least successful initiative was germ research, even though Aum sent a medical team to Zaire in 1992 following mistaken reports of an outbreak of Ebola. The most successful was the sarin production unit. Chief chemist Masaya Tsuchiya, 30, told police that he concocted a total of 25 kg of sarin between November 1993 and the Tokyo attack. Details are fragmentary. Incomplete cult memos have been confiscated suggesting that Aum wanted to buy lasers, fighter jets...
...earlier at the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital, they realized the crisis was worse than they had imagined. "It's a huge epidemic," Heyman says of the previously unrecorded cases, "and it's got nothing to do with the main hospital." By week's end who doctors had counted 97 Ebola deaths, and the toll seemed certain to rise much higher. The only good news was that the disease had not yet spread-as far as anyone could tell-to the 4 million people of Kinshasa, 250 miles to the west...
...EBOLA DEATH TOLL RISES...
Zairian health officials said 97 people have died from the Ebola virus so far. One of the country's leading virologists, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun, who helped identify the virus in 1976, criticized the government's quarantines and roadblocks as ineffective. On Saturday the quarantine on the Kikwit region was officially lifted...