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...hour at a popular shopping mall. The mall is near Yokohama's main train station whereWednesday 509 people were sent to hospitalswhen someone released gas there. In neither case was anyone seriously injured. Although Japanese authorities still have not charged anyone,suspicion still centers on the Aum Shinri Kyo sect, which officials suspect in theMarch 20 release of nerve gason Tokyo's subways that killed 12 people. Government officials are considering removing the legal religious status of the sect, which has denied any involvement in the attacks
...religiously-delineated people that has also accomplished much through hard work fails to enjoy similar stature. When one considers the immense hardships that confronted Jews over the past century (and longer), their successes are still more incredible. Protestants haven't suffered a massacre of one-third of their sect, or complete eradication from civil society in most of Europe...
...charged with kidnapping a 29-year-old woman who says he drugged her and kept her in a freight container for three months because she was trying to leave the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In a Moscow court yesterday, a teenager who once belonged to the cult said the sect had tested nerve gas on its Russian followers...
...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 and apparatuses and came close to uncovering evidence that the killer nerve gas may have been made on the premises. They discovered a large...
...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 cult continues to deny...