1.   Aum Shinrikyo was a registered religious corporation when it carried out the sarin gas attack.

2.   But it is still far from clear exactly how the sarin gas attack fit into his overall grand designs.

3.   In July neighbors complained of foul odors coming from the compound only a few weeks after seven people died in a sarin gas attack in Matsumoto.

4.   Moreover, Japanese investigators reported a similar sarin attack in Matsumoto last year in which seven people died.

5.   On the first anniversary of the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, the widow laid a bouquet of flowers on an altar set up at Kasumigaseki Station.

6.   Others include the Kobe earthquake in January and the sarin gas attack in March, which have dampened consumer sentiment.

7.   Rep. Curt Weldon today held court over a simulated sarin gas attack at a park on Capitol Hill.

8.   Prosecutors also said Asahara tried to thwart police efforts to raid cult facilities in late March last year by throwing Tokyo into turmoil with the sarin gas attack.

9.   Since the sarin attack, there have been two minor gas attacks in the area around a rail station in Yokohama, next to Tokyo.

10.   Takahashi pointed out that some Aum followers have apologized to victims of the sarin gas attack and admitted they committed crimes knowing that they would face severe penalties.