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...Terror Train The death sentence imposed on Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara for the 1995 sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway [NOTEBOOK, March 8] brought back the horror of that assault. We covered the disaster, which caused the death of 12 and injured more than 5,500, in our April 3, 1995, issue...
...subway wore big sunglasses ... he had on a surgical mask; but then, a lot of people in Tokyo wear masks during hay-fever season. The witnesses agree he boarded the eight-car B711T train on Tokyo's Hibiya line when it originated at 8 a.m. at the Nakameguro station ... the masked man easily found a seat and ... almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...
...hoped he was caught more than George W. Bush. A picture of al-Qaeda's second in command dead or in chains would give a boost to the President's insistence that, even as chaos mounted in Iraq and the world reverberated from the shock of the commuter-train bombings in Madrid, the U.S. is winning the war on terrorism. With Bush's election campaign picking up speed, the stakes for finding al-Zawahiri and bin Laden have never been higher, especially now that terrorist forces seem to have developed a keen eye for political calendars. The Islamists charged with...
Here, working with Human Nature director Michel Gondry, Kaufman wonders whether one person can be true to another, whatever obstacles pile up. On Valentine's Day 2004, Joel Barish (a wonderfully forlorn Jim Carrey) decides to skip work and--who knows why--take a train to Montauk on the frosty tip of Long Island. There he is accosted by free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet, ornery and seductive). She lures mopey Joel into an affair, which proves to have as many abrasive spots as soft ones. Truth to tell, they're a wildly ill-suited pair. But, hey, bitter with...
...March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." JOSE MARIA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings that killed more than 200 people...