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RazorbackExpat

(768 posts)

9. What was really strange about the Abe assassination

Reply to wolfie001 (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 10:38 AM

Nov 9

was that his security detail was really incompetent. They had him making a campaign stump speech for some local (Nara) candidate in the middle of a traffic circle that was enclosed by guardrails, making him essentially a sitting duck. And then some crazy guy comes moseying up to him from behind and shoots him with a homemade gun, and nobody noticed the assassin until it was too late. And this came just two months after people in Taiwan had established the 安倍晋三友の会, or "Shinzo Abe Friendship Society"