Word: theaum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commuters. Bombs were found in Tokyo's Kayabacho and Shinjuku stations, and irritating fumes were reported in two others. The devices were discovered before their timers reached the moment of detonation. A similar device was found in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest, last month. Police immediately suspected that theAum Shinrikyo cult was behind the new attacks,but cult leaders denied any involvement...
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...
...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 at dawn as tens of thousands...
...major Japanese daily reports thatShoko Asahara, leader of theAum Shinrikyo cult, has been found by police and is under constant surveillance. Police have been searching the cult's compound for the past week in an effort to find Asahara, who had been missing since theMar. 20 Tokyo subway gas attack. The Sankei Shimbun is the only Japanese paper to report the story, with other Japanese media continuing to say authorities are still looking for Asahara...
Hundreds of police searched the compound of theAum Shinrikyo cultin an effort to find a secret door that could lead them to the cult's leader. Shoko Asahara has been in hiding since theMarch 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12. Police redoubled their efforts after Wednesday's surprise capture of two of the cult's top scientists in a secret room beneath a dormitory. They hope to find Asahara in a similar hiding place but have so far found nothing...
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