21.   Police declined to identify the former cult member by name.

22.   Police also placed a former cult leader who had helped them find the burial sites, Kazuaki Okazaki, under arrest in the murders.

23.   Police would not identify the former cult member by name.

24.   Several former cult members being tried on murder charges have expressed remorse for their actions and the loyalty they once placed in Asahara.

25.   Takeshi Ono, another lawyer working for former cult members in Japan, said police never took them seriously before.

26.   TBS changed course after obtaining testimony from a former ranking cult member that contained precise descriptions of what Sakamoto said in the taped interview, which was never broadcast.

27.   That was based on jailhouse testimony by Kiyohide Hayakawa, a former top cult leader who saw the tape.

28.   The cult also is being investigated in the deaths and disappearances of former cult members and opponents, and in connection with making conventional, biological and electronic weapons.

29.   The committee also urged the government provide assistance for former cult members without jobs and separated from their families.

30.   The cult leader on trial for masterminding the Tokyo subway gas attack once taught that terrorism could bring salvation, a former top cult official testified Friday.