1.   Osama bin Laden has cash, men and the kind of personality around which cults are built.

2.   Niyazov has built a cult of personality reminiscent of Soviet leaders, and statues and portraits of him fill the country.

3.   Niyazov has built a cult of personality reminiscent of Soviet leaders, and statues and portraits of him fill his Central Asian nation.

4.   The cult was built around Asahara, who claims to be an incarnation of Jesus Christ and the only Japanese to have achieved Buddhist and Hindu enlightenment.

5.   One settler said a dozen Kiryat Arba residents were trying to build a cult around Goldstein.