31.   Seeking to persuade the Japanese government not to ban his group, the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult pledged Wednesday that it would not commit terrorist acts.

32.   Shoko Asahara, the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, is on trial in Tokyo for that crime and a dozen others.

33.   The GAO found that the guns had wound up in the hands of terrorists, religious cults and drug traffickers.

34.   The guru of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult was thinner but no more contrite after spending nearly a year in jail.

35.   The Internet is also burning up with hate literature, religious cults, political extremism and clandestine help with everything from making stink bombs to drugs to terrorism.

36.   The leader of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult was convicted of murder for masterminding the attack.

37.   The ranch was owned by Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese religious cult that two years later was accused to releasing deadly nerve gas in a Tokyo subway.

38.   The religious cult that worshiped a sluglike creature.

39.   The seige began after a shootout that left six members of the religious cult and four federal agents dead.