Before the attacks, Aum Shinrikyo had thousands of members, many of them educated and wealthy, who embraced Asahara’s violent apocalyptic teachings. In its new form as Aleph, it still considers Asahara a “genius of meditation” but says it cannot approve of Aum’s activities under his leadership and no longer considers him its guru… Read more
Japanese police raid cult offices (BBC News)
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