Taiwan's President Appears to Win Election By KEITH BRADSHER and JOSEPH KAHN, with regard to the apparent assassination attempt against Chen Shui-bian:

The shooting had odd elements. Among them was the seemingly relaxed security around the president. He stood in a roofless vehicle driven through a crowded, two-lane street. Neither he nor Ms. Lu wore bulletproof vests. Spectators freely exploded firecrackers along the route, and police said no one, including the president's bodyguards, had heard shots being fired.

Among other unanswered question were why both the president and vice president suffered light surface wounds the president near his abdomen and the vice president on her knee despite being struck by bullets. The bullet that hit the president ended up lodged in his clothing and was discovered after he arrived in the hospital, medical officials said.

Police said one or more handguns were used in the shooting and that the bullets found, one made of lead and the other of copper, were likely to have been homemade. The pace of the investigation seemed somewhat casual for a presidential assassination attempt. Cordons had been removed from the suspected shooting site by Friday night and car and pedestrian traffic around the area, and in Tainan generally, appeared normal.

It does look odd.