um...has the pres. been shot?

rumors are flying...any substance?

he was hit by a flying bottlerocket/debris. currently at qi-mei Hospital in Tainan. so far no actual footage of impact.

With a fire work.

He's not dead though.

so it was a fire work not like a bullet right??

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=taiwan+president&c=&ei=UTF-8

cos damn look at the search results..

well that yahoo report is well off the mark if it was just a firework

Apparently the truth's not clear yet.

"Reports: Taiwan President , VP Injured, Possibly Shot

Wire Reports
Friday, March 19, 2004; 2:10 AM

TAIPEI, March 19 - 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.

But CTI cable news quoted unidentified police officials as saying the 53-year-old president was injured by celebratory fireworks that are traditionally ignited as the president motorcade passes by.

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 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 30 cm (14 inch) wound across the stomach, said Wang, who was travelling in the president motorcade in southern Tainan."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Mar19.html

Sympathy vote'll wrap the election up then.

Does anyone remember "the president's brain is missing"?

By a pistol in Tainan. You could see the bullet hole in the windshield of the car.
Chen hit in stomach, but wearing a bulletproof vest. VP Lu hit in leg.

http://forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph ... 801#154801
Isn' this where all the election-related stuff has been?