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    Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'religion of Aum Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious...
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    Tokyo subway sarin attack (category Attacks by Aum Shinrikyo)
    on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three...
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  • Shoko Asahara (category Aum Shinrikyo)
    achieved. Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), formerly Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'Supreme Truth'), was founded by Asahara in his...
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    groups culminated in an assassination attempt on Okawa by Aum Shinrikyo in February 1995. Aum members attempted to kill Okawa by putting the nerve agent...
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    gas attack on the Tokyo subway, the group responsible for the attack, Aum Shinrikyo, contacted an American group known as AWARE (Association of World Academics...
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  • felt that the scholars' defense of Aum Shinrikyo led to a crisis of confidence in religious scholarship when Aum's culpability was proven. Scholar Ian...
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  • Look up aum, -om, OM, om, or 吽 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aum (or Om) is an Indian mantra and spiritual symbol. AUM or aum may also refer to:...
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  • ISBN 978-0-415-26324-5. Lifton, Robert Jay (2000). Destroying the World to Save it: Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Macmillan Publishers...
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  • Fumihiro Joyu (category Aum Shinrikyo)
    spokesperson and public relations manager of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, and served as the de facto chief of the organization from 1999 to 2007...
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    relatively poor success. The Aum Shinrikyo cult experimented with triethylamine as well. N,N-Diethylaniline was used by Aum Shinrikyo for acid reduction. N...
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