Even a key adviser to Mr Chen admitted the incident played a role in the equivocal victory. "We won a considerable sympathy vote. That is the bullet that ended the KMT hope of coming back. That was a blessing in disguise and that was God's will," said Taiwanese legislator Parris Chang.

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Protesters filled more than a dozen police-lined blocks in Manhattan, calling on President Bush to bring home U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000.
Organizers estimated up to 2 million people demonstrated in Rome, and 100,000 in London, but police in those cities gave estimates of 250,000 and 25,000, respectively.