1.   Asahara has been accused by former sect members of making occasional sexual advances against female recruits.

2.   But according to Blick, the former sect member, identified only as Pierre P., questioned the version of a collective suicide.

3.   Former sect members say there were growing tensions within the group.

4.   The sect has also vowed to use profits from its computer companies and other ventures to compensate victims of crimes committed by former sect members.

5.   A handwritten journal found by a former sect member and given to authorities describes how Samuel may have died.

6.   Acting on tips from former sect members, police searched Baxter State Park several times last year but found nothing.

7.   Children and their parents were placed in separate living quarters when they joined the sect, Rugambwa and former sect members said.

8.   In Russia, a former sect member said Wednesday that the sect had tested an unidentified nerve gas on its Russian followers.

9.   A former sect member, Boris Afanasiyev, has alleged that the investigation would go nowhere because senior Russian officials were tied into the sect.

10.   But information from a former sect member did not boost confidence.