Tokyo takes 9 years to 'find' their nat'l police chief's hitman, A COP
Mystery shrouds gunman in police chief attack
MDN / Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
Mystery continues to shroud the actions of the gunman who shot and injured former National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu in 1995, despite Wednesday's arrest of a former AUM Shinrikyo suspect who has admitted pulling the trigger.
Police said Toshiyuki Kosugi, 39, a former AUM cultist and senior officer at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting, told police he had carried out the attack.
But because of inconsistencies in his statements to police, his actual role in the crime, including whether he even shot the director general, remains unclear.
In 1996, Kosugi told police, "The first to third shots (I fired at Kunimatsu) hit him, but the fourth one missed." He also said, "After the shooting, I nearly lost my way" -- things that only the person who committed the crime would know....
Most likely it took 9 years to fake all the evidence since it was impossible that AUM did it.
Four Japan Cultists Arrested in Shooting
Associated Press / Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
TOKYO - Four members of a Japanese doomsday cult were arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting of the national police chief nine years ago, authorities said.
Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and seriously wounded while investigating Aum Shinrikyo, the cult later held responsible for the nerve gas attack on Japan's subway system that killed 12 people, injured thousands and crushed the country's sense of safety. He was shot 10 days after the subway attack in March 1995.

Posted by trek/taro at 1:03 PM KDT
Updated: Wednesday, July 7, 2004 4:51 PM KDT
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