Waiting for the end of the world Nov 19, 2009
In 1995, members of the Japanese group Aum Shinrikyo released sarin nerve gas into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people. Two years later, members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide in the belief that a spaceship was going to come and take them off earth. (CNN)
Timeline: Japan Oct 8, 2009
Tokyo sarin gas attack, the work of the Aum Shinrikyo cult 1995 attack on the Tokyo underground claimed 12 lives, injured more than 5,500 Aum Shinrikyo was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987 and drew thousands of followers Asahara was sentenced to death in 2004 over the Tokyo attack ... 1995 March - A religious sect, Aum Shinrikyo, releases the deadly nerve gas sarin on the Tokyo underground railway system. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Next threat: Chemical warfare? Aug 6, 2009
NEW DELHI: India has so far been spared of what Japan experienced in 1994-95 when a terror organisation, Aum Shinrikyo, used Sarin gas in attacks killing 12 persons and causing vision problems to thousands of others but the country is as vulnerable as any other part of the globe to chemical terrorism. The Japanese 00004000 terrorists had used a single front company to purchase 180 tonnes of phosphorous tri-chloride along with other toxic industrial chemicals to produce the deadly Sarin gas. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Sports squirm in terrorists' sights Mar 11, 2009
" Wenger is not typical of the club coaches or managers. He holds a master's degree in economics; his tactics on the field are to attack and not always to heed the safety of defense. And while he was learning his trade, he spent two years coaching Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan. Wenger can debate the real world outside the soccer bubble in six languages: French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. He knows that when Arsenal plays in Rome this midweek, he has no option but to put the... (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
