Word: poisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SURE YOU CAN DESCRIBE THE Tokyo poison-gas attack as "A New Kind of Evil,'' as you did in your table of contents. Previous press reports attest to the blood-drenched credentials of world religions. Disputes in Iraq, Iran, India, Israel, Croatia and Northern Ireland involving Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Protestants and Catholics are examples of deeply rooted religious fervor. From the Catholic Inquisition to abortion-clinic-doctor killings, history shows again and again where the real lack of "peace and security'' originates...
...PAST 12 YEARS, ON THE SIDEWALK next to my company's Tokyo headquarters, an elderly gentleman, Harukichi Watanabe, ran a small shoe-repair stand. Secretaries as well as corporate executives would leave their shoes each day for repair. After the poison-gas attack, I noticed on my arrival at the building that his stand was closed and flowers and gifts had been left there. I was told he had been killed in the subway disaster. To my surprise, when I picked up my copy of Time, on your index page I saw a picture of Watanabe lying on the subway...
...second time in 10 days, a man in a white surgical mask terrified Japan. This time the target of the mysterious assailant was carefully picked: Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the country's 220,000-strong police force and the man in charge of investigating the deadly poison-gas attack in Tokyo's subway...
...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 and apparatuses and came close to uncovering evidence that the killer nerve gas may have been made on the premises. They discovered a large and elaborate laboratory hidden behind...
...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...