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	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Shoko Asahara (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shoko Asahara, with his flowing beard and long hair, seemed a somewhat unlikely messianic figure when the Aum Shinrikyo cult released deadly sarin gas onto the Tokyo underground in 1995.
		Asahara claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Shiva, and promised to lead his followers to salvation when impending Armageddon arrived.
		Asahara was charged with those killings, as well as with ordering the murder of an anti-Aum lawyer and his family, and cult members who went against the grain.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /2/hi/asia-pacific/3504237.stm (587 words)

	Shoko Asahara biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shoko Asahara was born as Chizuo Matsumoto (松本智津夫 Matsumoto Chizuo) to a large and poor family of a tatami mat maker in Japan?s remote Kumamoto Prefecture.
		Asahara graduated in 1977 and turned to the study of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
		Yoshihiro Yasuda, the most experienced attorney in Shoko Asahara?s defence team, was arrested and was unable to participate in his legal defence team, though he was subsequently acquitted, prior to the end of the trial.
	shoko-asahara.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (1180 words)

	Japanese cult guru sentenced to death - World - www.smh.com.au
		Former doomsday cult guru Shoko Asahara was convicted and sentenced to death today for masterminding the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a string of other crimes that killed 27 people, shocked Japan and alerted the world to the danger of high-tech terrorism.
		Asahara was also convicted of masterminding a sarin gas attack in June 1994 in the central Japan city of Matsumoto, the murder of anti-Aum lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family, and the killings of wayward followers and people helping members leave the cult.
		Asahara did not speak during the session, though he grinned as he was brought into the courtroom, and made bizarre, comic faces during the proceedings.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/27/1077676958837.html (944 words)

	aum affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Asahara was sent off to a state boarding school for the blind, when he was six, the rejection and abandonment he felt had a deep psychological impact.
		Asahara became the supreme figure and one of the central focuses of Aum religious belief, comparing himself to Jesus and the Hindu deity Shiva.
		Asahara’s personal predicament can be attributed to forces such as poverty, the struggles of visual impairment, neglect by family, failure to achieve certain goals, some mental instability, and his volatile personality.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~copeland/aum1.html (1467 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Aum Shinrikyo Profile
		Asahara then understood himself to be "'the god of light who leads the armies of the gods' and is to create an ideal society made up of those who have attained psychic powers, a society called the kingdom of Shambhala" (In the Wake of Aum, p.
		Shoko Asahara assumed the status of a prophet when he made predictions concerning the future- e.g., saying that Japan would turn into a "virtual police state" in 1990, that Japan would entirely sink into the ocean in 1996, and that war would break out between the United States and Japan in 1997.
		Shoko Asahara claimed for himself the mantle of "Christ." However, the Bible teaches that there is only one Christ, Jesus Christ, and all others claiming to be Christ are in fact anti-Christs (see Acts 4:12, Acts 1:12, Matthew 24:4-5, 23-27, 1 John 2:18).
	www.watchman.org /profile/aumpro.htm (1921 words)

	Tokyo Court Rejects Cult Leader's Plea, High Court Says Mastermind Of 1995 Gas Attacks Can Be Put To Death - CBS News
		Asahara was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to hang for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo assault, in which cult members released deadly sarin gas on trains converging on the city's government district.
		Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to hang for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo assault, in which cult members released deadly sarin gas on trains converging on the city's government district.
		Asahara also was convicted of plotting a 1994 gas attack that killed seven in the central city of Matsumoto, the kidnapping and murder of an anti-cult lawyer and his family, and other slayings.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/05/world/main1682178.shtml (639 words)

	Shoko Asahara and Aum Supreme Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Asahara justified indiscriminate mass murder through the religious belief of "poa" -- a Tibetan Buddhist term for reincarnation to a higher existence.
		In 1994, seeing that his cult was entangled in all types of legal difficulties, Shoko ordered his disciples to mass produce deadly nerve gas and test its power in the streets of Matsumoto.
		Not the humble type, Asahara demanded that his followers treat him as a "living incarnation of God." He allowed them, at a steep price, to drink his bathing water as a way to cleanse their souls.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/uv/shoko (712 words)

	Verdict expected in nerve-gas trial - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com
		Asahara's eight-year trial reaches its climax on Friday with a verdict, widely expected to be a death sentence.
		Asahara is also accused of ordering followers to carry out a sarin gas attack the previous year in Matsumoto, central Japan, that killed seven people; plotting the murder of an anti-Aum lawyer and his family; and killing errant cult members.
		Asahara’s trial was lengthened by Japan’s chronic shortage of lawyers and judges, the complexity of the case and a six-month delay when the former guru fired his first attorney.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4390356 (1051 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japanese cult leader's appeal rejected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The nearly blind Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for masterminding attacks that killed 27 people, most chillingly the subway attack in which followers released sarin nerve gas on crowded commuter trains in Tokyo's government district, killing 12.
		Asahara was convicted in 2004 by the Tokyo District Court.
		In addition to the subway attack, Asahara was convicted of plotting a 1994 gas attack in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto that killed seven people, the kidnapping and murder of an anti-cult lawyer and his family, and other slayings.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-15-japanese-cult_x.htm?csp=34 (850 words)

	Death penalty for Japanese cult leader - World News - MSNBC.com
		TOKYO - Former doomsday cult guru Shoko Asahara was convicted and sentenced to death Friday for masterminding the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a string of other crimes that killed 27 people, shocked Japan and alerted the world to the danger of high-tech terrorism.
		Asahara, founder of the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult, also was convicted of ordering his followers to produce and stockpile arsenals of conventional and chemical weapons, including the sarin gas used in the subway attack.
		Asahara is the 12th person sentenced to hang for the attacks, and the decision was widely expected.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4395041 (1103 words)

	coming to a subway near you...
		In what is now routine, Shoko Asahara was ordered not to interrupt court proceedings after he stood up during his trial and shouted, "I'm Shoko Asahara." The portly death cult guru also kept muttering while witnesses were testifying on allegations that he ordered the 1989 killings of Tsutsumi Sakamoto, an anti-cult lawyer, and his family.
		The lawyers defending Shoko Asahara said they wanted to quit the case because they are not being given enough time to prepare for trial sessions.
		Shoko proceeded to shoulder full responsibility for the attacks in an attempt to stop the cross-examination by the defense which, the gods said, would harm the Inoue's soul.
	www.mayhem.net /Crime/supremetruth.html (5650 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News
		Condemned Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara is mentally competent to stand trial in his appeal, according to an expert's report submitted Monday to the Tokyo High Court, contradicting his lawyers' claim that the incoherent guru's mental state is abnormal...
		Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, was sentenced to death on Feb. 27, 2004, for his role in 13 criminal cases, including a sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system that resulted in the deaths of 12 people.
		Asahara, 49, was sentenced to death in February by the Tokyo District Court in connection with 13 cases, including the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and another killer nerve gas attack the previous year.
	www.cultsoncampus.com /aum.html (2165 words)

	Blind bully who mesmerised others to murder - World - www.theage.com.au
		The son of a poor tatami (straw mat) maker and one of seven siblings, Asahara graduated from a school for the blind, where he was described by some as ambitious and by others as a bully.
		Asahara's first job was as an acupuncturist and in the early 1980s he sold traditional Chinese medicine, reportedly amassing wealth through sales of potions such as tangerine peel in alcohol.
		Asahara was said to have commanded absolute loyalty among his followers, who were forced to submit to the strict rules of an ascetic communal life, including a gruelling initiation ceremony and meditation for days in solitary confinement.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/27/1077676962483.html (472 words)

	Shoko Asahara Biography (Religious Figure/Criminal) — Infoplease.com
		Shoko Asahara is the founder and central figure of the organization Aum Shinri-kyo (Aum Supreme Truth), the radical religious group who used poison gas in 1994 and 1995 to commit mass murder in Japan.
		Asahara predicted doom and destruction, with himself in the central role of savior and then leader of the spiritually pure survivors.
		Asahara also claimed to be able to teach adherents levitation, prognostication and telepathy and his popularity grew; within 2 years Aum Shinri-kyo had enough followers to be granted legal status as a religion.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/shokoasahara.html (365 words)

	The Religion Report: 3 March 2004 - Death Sentence for Shoko Asahara
		Shoko Asahara, the former guru of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, was given the death sentence by a Japanese court this week for his role in planning the 1995 sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway.
		Asahara as the obvious architect and the leader and so on, was bound I think to get it.
		Asahara officially stood down as leader in ’96, to distance himself a bit so that the movement could continue.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1136783.htm (1040 words)

	AUM SHINRIKYO TOKYO GAS ATTACK
		Asahara engaged in lecture tours, during which he explained his views on religion and answered questions.
		Shoko Asahara traveled abroad on a number of occasions and met various well-known yogic and Buddhist religious teachers, such as the 14th Dalai Lama and Kalu Rimpoche, a patriarch of the Tibetan Kagyupa school.
		The subway attack, by this theory, was an attempt to distract the police investigation (previously police suggested attempt of Shoko Asahara to become a king of Japan).
	www.true-crimes.com /aum_shinrikyo.html (1032 words)

	4.07: The Cult at the End of the World
		Asahara found the weak point in Japan's new generation and then pressed with every resource he had.
		Shoko Asahara, the blind and bearded guru from Japan, had become Hari Seldon, and Aum Supreme Truth was the Foundation.
		But where Asahara and his mad scientists charted new ground was in their pursuit of the weapons of mass destruction.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.07/aum_pr.html (6833 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo
		While in India in 1986, Asahara claims to have recieved enlightenment while alone in the Himalayan Mountains, and upon his return in 1987 he changed his name from Chizuo Matsumoto to the "holy" Asahara Shoko (Mullins: 315).
		Asahara announced the need for followers to prepare for the inevitable Armageddon, and they began construction on nuclear shelters and communes where they could escape worldly distractions (Reader: 46).
		Asahara had already "explored the inner world of self" and promised levitation, clairvoyance, and a breaking of the life cycle (Young: 236).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/aums.html (3616 words)

	AUM guru may undergo mental tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shoko Asahara, the founder of the doomsday cult AUM Shinrikyo could escape punishment for masterminding the cult's crimes on the grounds that he is mentally unstable, the Mainichi has learned.
		Asahara is on trial in the Tokyo District Court on 13 charges, including some relating to AUM's infamous Tokyo subway poison gas attack that killed 12 people, and other crimes.
		Asahara's trial will be halted for about six months if the court grants the lawyers' request, made nearly four years after the start of Asahara's trial.
	www.rickross.com /reference/aum/aum251.html (536 words)

	Rules of Activities
		However, in case a member values and inherits specifically religious but irrelevant-to-the-incidents elements of Aum Shinrikyo or of its former leader Shoko Asahara, we are not in the position to disapprove of it, provided that he/she follows the principles that Aleph disapproves of the past incidents and makes apologies and compensation.
		Shoko Asahara’s pictures, illustrations or anything bearing his image (hereafter, simply denoting them as ‘his pictures etc.’) should not be placed either on any of Aleph’s common altars or on any one’s private altar.
		Although it is widely misunderstood as a mind-control gadget to inject Shoko Asahara’s brain waves, it is not.
	info.aleph.to /info/0211/021112-5-02.html (1621 words)

	Shoko Asahara - founder of Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult
		Chizuo Matsumoto (松本智津夫), better known as Shoko Asahara (麻原彰晃), is the founder of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth) cult.
		Asahara is currently in Japanese custody and faces 27 murder counts in 13 separate indictments, mainly the Tokyo attack but also individual murders of Tsutsumi Sakamoto (an anti-Aum lawyer) and Kiyoshi Kariya (a notary).
		Asahara was sentenced to death by hanging on February 27, 2004 at Tokyo District Court.
	www.japan-101.com /culture/shoko_asahara.htm (509 words)

	Supreme Truth - the Japanese Cult
		While members of the sect insisted that they merely practiced a form of Buddhism, it was in reality a cult revolving around a long-haired, charismatic mystic, Shoko Asahara, described as a magnetic misfit who preached that government efforts to obliterate his movement will coincide with the beginning of the end of the world.
		In June, 1998, Ikuo Hayashi, 51, ex-Aum Shinrikyo cultist was convicted of the sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways in 1995 and sentenced to life imprisonment; by the Tokyo District Court.
		In June, 2002, one of Asahara's top henchmen, Tomomitsu Niimi, became the eighth Aum member to be sentenced to death in connection with the chemical attack.
	www.masonicinfo.com /supreme.htm (902 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News 6
		December 21, 2004 Asahara's appellate trial to proceed, The Japan Times (The Tokyo High Court told Shoko Asahara's lawyers Monday that it will not suspend his trial despite their claim he is suffering from a mental disorder, the lawyers said.
		Former doomsday cult guru Shoko Asahara was convicted Friday and sentenced to hang for masterminding the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and other crimes that killed 27 people and alerted the world to the danger of high-tech terrorism.
		Nearly nine years later, Shoko Asahara, the leader of the group, is on Friday due to hear his verdict.
	www.cultsoncampus.com /aum6.html (2563 words)

	AUM SHINRI KYO (SUPREME TRUTH)
		Its leader, Shoko Asahara was born in 1955 as Chizuo Matsumoto, the son of a tatami straw mat maker.
		Asahara claims that he has traveled forward to the year 2006 and has talked to people who have survived World War III.
		Asahara was placed on trial for the spreading of a nerve gas, Sarin, in a Tokyo subway station on 1995-MAR-20.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_aumsh.htm (1237 words)

	Aum Shinri Kyo: Book of Revelation
		Shoko Asahara assumed the status of a prophet when he made predictions concerning the future— e.g., saying that Japan would turn into a "virtual police state" in 1990, that Japan would entirely sink into the ocean in 1996, and that war would breakout between the United States and Japan in 1997.
		Shoko Asahara claimed for himself the mantle of "Christ." However, the Bible teaches that there is only one Christ, Jesus
		However, even years earlier, Asahara had made specific predictions regarding events leading up to the Apocalypse, including the demise of the Japanese economy in 1990 which would "lead to a virtual police state" and that "the year 1996 will witness ‘the sinking of Japan’" (The Cult at the End of the World, p.
	catholic-resources.org /Students/AumShinriKyo/revelation.html (435 words)

	Japan's top court rejects appeal by cult guru Asahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japan's top court today rejected an appeal by doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara, a court official said, paving the way for his execution for a string of killings including the 1995 nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways.
		TOKYO — Japan's top court today rejected an appeal by doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara, a court official said, paving the way for his execution for a string of killings including the 1995 nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways.
		If the defense team does nothing, Asahara will be executed within six months of receiving official court notice of today's ruling, the official said.
	www.startribune.com /722/story/678952.html (907 words)

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