41.   Accused of ordering mass murder, defiant guru Shoko Asahara insisted Wednesday to a lawyer visiting him in jail that his Aum Shinri Kyo cult was framed by police.

42.   After dozens of hearings into killings of black activists, observers are growing skeptical that the trail of which top officials ordered the murders will ever be clearly established.

43.   Among them were two men accused of ordering murders from prison using cellular phones.

44.   Among them were two men accused of using cellular phones from their prison cells to order murders.

45.   Asahara, the cult leader, was reported Wednesday to have confessed to ordering the murder of a cult member who tried to help others escape from the group.

46.   Banda and his top aide, John Tembo, have been charged with ordering the murder of Aaron Gadama and three other politicians after they opposed government policies.

47.   Both murders were ordered and carried out by still unknown persons, said Zeljko Sacic, head of the police crime department.

48.   But he remained silent about whether he had ordered the murder, they added.

49.   He ordered the murders of three Kings and plotted to murder three others.

50.   He testified that Iranian leaders Khamenei and Rafsanjani had personally ordered the murders.