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...exist. Vairoj says they do, and claims he made contact with them in the jungle. A few, he says, have received combat training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dangerous as this group may be, however, almost no one believes there are enough Mujahadeen in Thailand to have wreaked all this mayhem...
...dozen Tokyo commuters, dire prophecy came true. On a sunny March morning in 1995, Aum members, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract a police investigation into their operations, used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five subway trains. A poisonous, invisible cloud spread through the carriages and stations. Thousands of people were made sick, and 12 died...
...DIED. JOHN ENTWISTLE, 57, virtuoso bass player who cofounded The Who, of an apparent heart attack; in Las Vegas. One of the seminal British rock groups to emerge in the early 1960s, The Who were known for their stellar guitar playing, onstage mayhem, and for inventing the rock opera with the celebrated Tommy. The band members retired in 1982 but continued to reunite for tours. DIED. ANN LANDERS, 83, whose real name was Esther ("Eppie") Pauline Friedman Lederer; in Chicago. Landers' syndicated column delivered saucy advice on topics ranging from household problems, such as how to hang a toilet-paper...
...Duterte, who graduated as a lawyer in 1972?the year Marcos proclaimed martial law?rose to prominence against this backdrop of vicious mayhem. As a city prosecutor he made his reputation by targeting military and rebel abuses with equal fervor. The son of a former provincial governor, Duterte says his father taught him that elected officials must serve the greater good no matter what it takes, like a father protecting and disciplining his family. And Duterte was fearless: even as a teenager, he refused to back down from fights?or whippings from his mother?despite being a self-confessed skinny...
...followers in Japan and around the world. Asahara, its founder, was an intelligent misfit who claimed he could levitate himself and who appeared regularly on the TV talk-show circuit. Then, on a sunny March morning in 1995, followers of the doomsday cult, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract police investigating their secretive chemical-manufacturing operation, quietly used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five Tokyo subway trains. A poisonous cloud spread through the trains and stations. Thousands of commuters were sickened, and 12 people died...