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	Aum Shinrikyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aum attempted to borrow scriptural authority for its doctrines by claiming they were based on the ancient Buddhist scriptures included in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
		Aum's activities aimed at the popularization of Buddhist texts were also noted by the governments of Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Tibetan government-in-exile located in Dharamsala, India.
		Ikuo Hayashi, Aum to Watakushi (Aum and I), Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo (3014 words)

	NEWS FOCUS
		Some commentators point to Aum Shinrikyo--the Japanese cult that released the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, killing 12 people and injuring more than 5,000--to bolster their case for the likelihood of a bioterrorist attack in the U.S. in the near future.
		Aum was a perpetual moneymaking machine with assets at one time estimated to be more than $1 billion.
		After the subway attack, the cult's activities were widely chronicled by the media and grabbed the attention of influential officials in the Clinton Administration and in Congress.
	pubs.acs.org /hotartcl/cenear/990705/7727nfbox1.html (811 words)

	4.07: The Cult at the End of the World
		This is the story of the ultimate cult: a wired, high-tech, designer-drug, billion-dollar army of New Age zealots, focused around the leadership of a blind and bearded madman, armed with weapons of mass destruction.
		Aum's scientists had built a vast automated plant to mass-produce sarin, the Nazi nerve gas that would prove their weapon of choice.
		Aum's forays into conventional weapons - its explosives and AK-74s - were alarming enough, as were the cult's eerie experiments with electrodes, drugs, and mind control.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.07/aum_pr.html (6833 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo Cult/Terrorist Organisation
		The previous norm for terrorist attacks was a political aim that adhered to the principle of Propaganda of the deed and did not aim to cause large-scale death.
		The Aum cult was established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara, its aims are to take over Japan and then the world; its organizational structure mimics that of a nation-state, with "ministries" and mock government departments.
		In April 1990 Aum attacked the Japanese parliament with botulinum toxin aerosol, and in June 1993 it targeted the wedding of the Japanese crown prince.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_aum.html (726 words)

	coming to a subway near you...
		Aum, whose computer business has been a major source of its income, was also involved in developing software used by a number of government ministries and major companies.
		Aum was stripped of its legal status and tax privileges as a religious organization, but the government concluded it was no longer a threat and stopped short of using an anti-subversion law to ban it.
		The last of five cult members accused in the attack to be arrested, Yasuo alone is believed to be responsible for eight of the 12 deaths and for about half the injuries.
	www.mayhem.net /Crime/supremetruth.html (5650 words)

	V. Crimes of the Cult - A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo
		Aum members assisted in a firebombing attack on the Aum headquarters in Tokyo in an attempt to inspire public sympathy for the Aum just before the Tokyo subway gas attack.
		Masami Tsuchiya, head of the cult's chemical squad, has admitted he developed the sarin used for the attack and that Hideo Murai, the deceased Science and Technology Minister for the Aum, and six other senior cult members were involved.
		Among the documents obtained at the cult's New York Office, the Staff found scraps of paper that when pieced together appear to be an English translation of Asahara's March 24th defense of the cult that as publicly disseminated.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part05.htm (3679 words)

	Aum Shin Rikyo extends influence around world - religious cults, sects and movements
		At rush hour, the Aum cult members broke open the containers with sharp points they had affixed to the end of umbrellas they were carrying.
		Aum's group is home to some of the most brilliant scientific minds in the world.
		Aum Shin Rikyo should have caught the attention of U.S. military intelligence and the CIA long before the Tokyo subway attack.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /a06a01.html (2086 words)

	The New American - Cult of Terror - November 11, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Aum headquarters included laboratories to manufacture LSD, methamphetamines, and a crude form of truth serum that was used to control the cult's communicants - as well as explosives, chemical weapons, and biological warfare agents, such as anthrax cultures.
		The Aum attack was also invoked during the July anti-terrorism summit of the G-7, which produced a communique on the need for international collaboration in dealing with terrorists.
		Aum's direct involvement with Soviet political and intelligence elites began in December 1991, when a representative of the cult met with Oleg Lobov, head of the Russian Security Council and a trusted aide to President Yeltsin.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1996/vo12no23/vo12no23_terror.htm (2802 words)

	Aum cult man flies to Moscow
		Fumihiro Joyu, the 40-year-old former telegenic spokesman for the cult responsible for the 1995 deadly gas attacks on Tokyo subways, left on a Aeroflot plane from Narita airport, a public safety source in Tokyo said.
		As one of the longest-serving disciples of Asahara, Joyu was in Russia running Aum's Moscow branch when the sect spread Sarin gas in crowded Tokyo subways in March 1995, killing 12 people and injuring thousands.
		The cult's guru has made virtually no statement at his trial, which opened in April 1996, since January 1998 when he denied masterminding the Tokyo subway attack, apart from murmuring incoherently, and has often appeared to doze during proceedings.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1345737,00.html (515 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo
		Aum is Sanskrit for the "powers of destruction and creation in the universe," and Shinrikyo is the "teaching of the supreme truth" (Reader: 15).
		Aum publicly responded to the rejection with demonstrations, law suits, and a legal appeal against the decision.
		Aum Shinrikyo offers liberation from suffering and illness, and Mullins states "Aum can best be viewed as an eclectic Buddhist movement that draws on various Asian traditions, such as yoga and Tibetan Buddhism" (Mullins: 315).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/aums.html (3616 words)

	AUM cult reviving, survey finds
		AUM is accused of carrying out the Tokyo subway sarin nerve gas attack in March 1995 which left 12 people dead and thousands injured, as well as an earlier sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, in June 1994, which killed seven people, and other crimes.
		AUM founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Asahara, is currently on trial on charges involving 17 criminal cases, including responsibility for the two gas attacks.
		AUM's local organizations had been closed due partly to the authorities' investigations, but the cult has succeeded in reorganizing its branches in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, and Matsumoto, they said.
	www.factnet.org /cults/aum_shin_rikyo/aum.htm?FACTNet (721 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Aum's lingering legacy
		Andrew Marshall, co-author of The Cult at the End of the World: The Incredible Story of Aum, says they were arguably not helped by a "straight-jacketed" education system which does not nurture critical faculties.
		The PSIA said that it had not found any specific terror plans, or any signs that Aum was capable of producing sarin today, but that its beliefs, and the high standards of education and technical ability possessed by its members, meant it was still dangerous.
		Shoko Egawa, a Japanese journalist who has written several books on Aum, and who was nearly gassed to death herself by the group, said she did not believe that cults posed any greater threat to Japan than any other developed nation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3513617.stm (842 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo :: Why is the Aum cult thriving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"Aum claims the building is a printing plant, but what worries us is all those pipes coming out of the side." The cult lied for years about the function of another facility with lots of pipes.
		The cult claims they are for storing rice, but the locals know it once used the same kind of containers as prisons and torture chambers for anyone who tried to flee the sect.
		Aum members have been hounded or evicted from several properties, in one case after the cult acquired a Tokyo apartment in the same block as a woman whose husband had perished in the subway attack.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /10353 (2198 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo (Japan, cultists) - Council on Foreign Relations
		Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) is a Japanese religious cult obsessed with the apocalypse.
		Aum Shinrikyo members transported the sarin as a liquid solution, tightly contained in packages made to look like lunch boxes or bottled drinks, the Japanese police said.
		Aum Shinrikyo is a doomsday cult whose teachings are based on tenets borrowed from Hinduism and Buddhism.
	cfrterrorism.org /groups/aumshinrikyo.html (916 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo :: Watch on Aum cult extended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Aum Shinrikyo cult predictably objected to a Public Security Examination Commission decision Thursday to extend government surveillance of its activities for three more years beyond Feb. 1.
		The cult, now called Aleph, is branded as the origin of two instances of indiscriminate mass murder, in 1994 and again in 1995, through the spread of sarin nerve gas.
		A three-year watch on Aum was authorized in January 2000, and agency investigators and police have had access to cult facilities.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /2082 (500 words)

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		Tomomitsu Niimi, former "home affairs minister" of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult, is being tried in for the murders of 26 people in seven separate attacks, including the 1995 subway attack and the slaying of a lawyer and his family.
		Aum Shinrikyo was one of several cults that attracted a large following in the former Soviet Union in the turmoil that followed the collapse of communism in the 1990s.
		Asahara, whose Aum cult preached that the world was coming to an end, masterminded the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack that killed 12 and made 6000 ill.
	hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/aumshinrikyo.htm (8443 words)

	JAPAN / AUM CULT
		TEXT: Five Aum members were involved in the sarin gas attack that led to a dozen deaths and sickened thousands more.
		The cult has never formally acknowledged its role in the 1995 subway gassing, but the writings of the cult leader, Shoko Asahara, indicate the goal appears to have been to attack the heart of Tokyo and eventually bring down Japan's government.
		Aum has not been banned in Japan and has rebuilt its membership to over two thousand.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/1999/09/990930-terror.htm (363 words)

	Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Aum cult thought to be heading toward split
		Cult Grip: Niimi remains loyal to the Aum founder
		Aum cult's quiet comeback causing new concerns in Japan
	www.rickross.com /groups/asahara.html (2002 words)

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