1.   Endo and Nakagawa wore vinyl bags on their heads as primitive gas masks and breathed oxygen from tubes as the sarin production, with Tsuchiya in control, started.

2.   A report in the Asahi newspaper quoted police as saying they also found more chemical residues near the site that could have been left by sarin production and storage.

3.   In handing down the decisions, the three-judge panel recognized the involvement of cult leader Shoko Asahara in ordering the sarin production.

4.   Kyodo said he and Inoue both said Asahara ordered the sarin production.

5.   Other than sarin production, AUM is suspected of producing weapons such as handguns, and police have confiscated parts used to make Russian guns, the sources said.

6.   The cult has denied any involvement in sarin production or the subway attack.

7.   The leading economic newspaper Nihon Keizai said that police last Sunday found a note describing the process of sarin production in the laboratory.