Word: subway
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...TheTokyo subway gas attackwas just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, theAum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse...
...Tokyo subway gas attack was just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, the Aum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadership in a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation that cult guru Shoko Asahara was planning...
...Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asaharastrained credibility today when he told a Japanese court that he was unaware of any cult member's involvement in thedeadly poisoning on Tokyo's subway. After all, he said: "I have so many followers, it's impossible for me to know what everybody's doing." Yet even as the cult leader maintained his innocence, police discovered another huge storehouse of nerve gas ingredients in the sect's Mt. Fuji compound. Asahara is getting no help from his followers. Under questioning, theguru's top lieutenants have said that Asahara masterminded the attack, having laid plans...
Four hours into a 1,000-officermanhunt, Japanese police last night arrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader charged Monday with murder in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting...
...Friday -- Children's Day in Japan -- employees at a Tokyo subway station extinguished two burning plastic bags of chemicals left in a men's room before their fumes could combine to form enough hydrogen cyanide to kill 10,000 people in seconds. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, Japanese police, continuing their investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, arrested the group's top lawyer, Yoshinobu Aoyama, on charges of slander. As in other arrests, police have so far avoided charging that the cult was involved in the March 20 gassing on the Tokyo subway...