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...people died, and more than 5,500 were hurt in a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway during Monday-morning rush hour. Two days later, police began raiding the main compounds of a religious sect, Aum Shinrikyo, seizing what appeared to be laboratory equipment and tons of chemicals. Police have confirmed that they found a stash of 22 lbs. of gold ingots and yen valued at more than $7 million. The cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, denied any link to the attack...
...acetonitrile--some benign, but others deadly, and still others that if mixed together might create something deadlier still. Enough to kill 4.2 million people, guessed one newspaper; another topped it with an estimate of 10 million. Japanese television viewers watched, mesmerized, as the police stormed the redoubts of the sect, looking for evidence that might link the hoard to 10 horrible deaths that had already occurred...
...Shinrikyo, which is suspected of masterminding last week's nerve gas attack thatkilled 10 Tokyo subway passengers. Although the cult denies involvement with the gassing, or with the shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, police have seized a cache of hazardous chemicals during raids on the sect's compounds. Kunimatsu was in serious condition after surgery requiring 21 pints of blood. The gunman wore a surgical mask and fled by bicycle. Police are trying to track down the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, whose whereabouts have been unknown since the gas attack...
...cult is the chief suspect in last week's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 and injured thousands, with hundreds still hospitalized. In another cult building, police found underground rooms that they believed were used to imprison people who tried to flee the sect. Police found millions of dollars worth of yen, piles of gold bars and tons of chemicals in cult buildings, including theingredients of sarin-- the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack -- as well as glycerin compounds that could be used to make explosives. The leader of the group, Shoko Asahara, remains...
...audience, however, was not limited to those who believed in fengshui. Lin, a leading expert on fengshui and a master of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhism, prefaced his lecture by saying: "I am not her to proselytize...