Taiwan President Shot (Update: Wounds not life-threatening)

[BurbankKarl]

KCAL9 News reported just went across the wires

[sharktrager]

Bloomberg is reporting that Taiwan TV says it was a firecracker injury.

[AF68]

Time to stock up on computer memory and ammo, I fear.

[DoughtyOne]

Hmmm, that's comforting.

[lonevoice]

CNN radio news just reported that it's from a fireworks injury. I hope they get it straight soon!

[Heatseeker]

CNNfn reports that both the president and vice president are hospitalized after an "incident".

Damn, and I was gonna go to bed at a (sort of) normal hour for once tonight. ;)

[kattracks]

Taiwan President Shot, in Hospital

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were in hospital after being shot on the campaign trail on Friday, television reports and a lawmaker accompanying them said.

Chen was rushed to hospital in the southern city of Tainan, a presidential official said. TVBS Television said he was wounded in the stomach. Vice President Annette Lu was shot in the leg, Wang Hsin-nan, a lawmaker from Chen's Democratic Progressive Party told TVBS.

"The bullet hit the vice president in the knee first, then the president," Wang said. Chen had sustained a deep 14 inch wound across the stomach, said Wang, who was traveling in the president's motorcade in southern Tainan.

[Cindy]

I would like to see confirmation too.
How a firecracker could get that close to the President is makes one wonder.
The President needs to tighten up his security, in my opinion.

[Mo1]

Taiwanese president reportedly shot to death while campaigning

Does that mean he's dead???

[HAL9000]

AP -

BULLETIN KILL

Thursday, March 18, 2004

(03-18) 23:03 PST (AP) --

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Kill the version of BC-Taiwan-President sent as a0420. The Taiwanese president is being treated at a hospital for his wound. A writethru has moved.

The AP

[MEG33]

Who needs to sleep!

[BurbankKarl]

Wait til Oliver Stone hears this

[Arkinsaw]

a deep 14 inch wound across the stomach,

Much more reason for a big stir than a 1.2 inch wound as reported earlier.

[onyx]

JohnHuang2 just posted an article that said the president's "convertible" was now parked outside the hospital.

[KneelBeforeZod]

It may have been heavily fortified at one time, but its nothing like it was before. After martial law finally ended you hardly ever see soldiers around anymore

[steve86]

Taiwanese president reportedly shot to death while campaigning

Wouldn't it be somewhat unusual to die that quickly from a three-centimeter wound in the abdomen with prompt medical attention?

I wonder if it wasn't your ordinary bullet!.

[Charles Henrickson]

Does that mean he's dead???

Apparently not. It sounds like that report is dead. See the post after yours.

[norton]

Guns in Taiwan:
When I was stationed there they checked out my private firearm just about quarterly.
Drop by, check, sniff, count rounds, smile, depart.
Seemed they had a fairly good account of who and where...

[DoughtyOne]

If that turns out not to be the case, it was terribly irresponsible for them to report that.

[caa26]

Chinese agents could have infiltrated Taiwanese security, now there are unsubstatntiated reports he is dead. Feel like I'm living in a Tom Clancy novel right now.

[Petronski]

Arlen Specter and Gerald Ford could form a commission.

Pay no attention to the grassy knoll!