Word: sarin
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...provides the first publicly available visual evidence that the group has tested chemical agents on live subjects. John Gilbert, a former U.N. and Pentagon chemical-weapons inspector who viewed the tapes, says the dog?s spasmodic reaction indicates that it might have been subjected to a nerve gas like sarin...
...earthquake, for instance, that awakens the worm in Super Frog Saves Tokyo.) Some of the characters in After the Quake are allowed to find true love or happy endings, but there's a wicked twist in that notion. All six stories take place after the earthquake?but before the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo three months later, an event as fantastic as anything ever imagined by Murakami. If there's a sequel to this set of stories, it's going to get even weirder...
...more imaginative—after all, who saw crashing two planes into the Twin Towers as a legitimate terrorist option before last year? Eyes and ears become open to a host of horrific but suddenly and agonizingly plausible scenarios. In our eyes, trash receptacles become potential hiding places for sarin gas canisters. Mid-sized office buildings, no matter their unimportance, become potential targets for al Qaeda and require increased security. Tunnels become potential tombs. Nikes and Rockport wingtips become potential vessels for plastic explosive putty in the eyes of security guards who, given the obvious and proven dangers of laxness...
...cult has seven main facilities throughout Japan and 20 smaller branches where followers can practice meditation; it also organizes yoga classes, computer seminars and student clubs on university campuses. These activities attract recruits like Ai Ozaki, 25. A shy, thoughtful woman, Ozaki (her cult name) joined Aum after the sarin attack, drawn in part by its promise of life after death in a reincarnated form. "I was afraid of dying," she says, "so I liked their creed." She knows in her heart, she says, that Asahara must have had something to do with the subway murders, "but there...
...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...