Aum Shinrikyō

pourtant l’insécurité publique tout en permettant de transformer un simple différend entre communautés locales en un véritable conflit armé. Enfin, le terrorisme chimique, après l’attentat dans le métro de Tokyo commis en mars 1995 par la secte Aum Shinrikyo (« Vérité suprême »), l’édification d’un potentiel militaire biologique russe après les conférences d’examen faisant suite à la convention contre les armes biologiques de 1972, ainsi que les envois aux États-Unis, en 2001, de courriers contenant

manufacture chemical agents such as powerful nerve agents, as well as the acquisition of biological expertise and technologies, are henceforth within reach of various groups and individuals. This was confirmed by the Sarin gas attacks carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo sect in the Tokyo subway in March 1995, and by the distribution of envelopes containing anthrax in autumn 2001 in the United States. These attacks, which only caused a few deaths, revealed how difficult it was to carry out mass attacks with these

Jemaah Islamiyah to its list, and on 29 October 2002, the council adopted Council Regulation (EC) 1935/2002 updating the EU list accordingly. 514 Council Regulation (EC) 2580/2001, 27 December 2001. 515 As of 28 October 2002, the list included Aum Shinrikyo, Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem (armed wing of Hamas), the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). 516 Common Position 2001/931/CFSP, 27 December 2001 (“Common Positions” are binding on member states by virtue