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オバマ氏に「暗殺の懸念」 支持者や陣営に募る不安、米紙報道
2008.2.26 13:45
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米テキサス州で２２日、警護の要員に付き添われるオバマ上院議員（右端）（ＡＰ）
米大統領選で民主党候補指名を争うオバマ上院議員が指名争いで勢いづくにつれ、支持者や陣営内部にはオバマ氏暗殺の危険性に対する懸念が高まっている。２５日付のニューヨーク・タイムズ紙が、全米でささやかれながらも公然と語られることがなかった陣営スタッフらの不安を伝えた。
通常、党内の指名争いの段階ではシークレット・サービス（大統領警護）が候補者を警護することはないが、クリントン上院議員には前大統領夫人として派遣され、オバマ上院議員にはイリノイ州選出のダービン上院議員（民主）らの要請を受けた異例の形で２００７年５月から警護が付いている。
陣営内部には、黒人が大統領になる可能性が高まるほど暗殺の懸念も高まるとの見方がある。当初、黒人層の支持者が上院議員の身を案じ、予備選ではわざと勝たせないのではないかとの憶測もあったが、今ではクリントン上院議員をしのぐ勢いの候補になったため、暗殺の懸念も現実的なものになったという。
１月には米下院国土安全保障委員会のトンプソン委員長が国土安全保障省に「（暗殺に対し）特別の注意を払うよう」念を押す手紙を送った。委員長はタイムズ紙の取材に、具体的な暗殺計画情報の有無については明らかにしなかったという（共同）
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ニューヨーク・タイムズ英文記事はこちら ⇒
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/us/politics/25memo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Obama++assassination&st=nyt&oref=slogin
In Painful Past, Hushed Worry About Obama
Secret Service agents with Senator Barack Obama last month.
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: February 25, 2008
DALLAS — There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he be safe?
In Colorado, two sisters say they pray daily for his safety. In New Mexico, a daughter says she persuaded her mother to still vote for Mr. Obama, even though the mother feared that winning would put him in danger. And at a rally here, a woman expressed worries that a message of hope and change, in addition to his race, made him more vulnerable to violence.
“I’ve got the best protection in the world,” Mr. Obama, of Illinois, said in an interview, reprising a line he tells supporters who raise the issue with him. “So stop worrying.”
Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months.
Mr. Obama was 6 at the time, and like many of his admirers, he has only read about the violence that traumatized the nation. But those recollections and images are often invoked by older voters, who watch his candidacy with fascination, as well as an uneasy air of apprehension, as Democrats inch closer to selecting their nominee.
Mr. Obama has had Secret Service agents surrounding him since May 3, the earliest a candidate has ever been provided protection. (He reluctantly gave in to the insistent urging of Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and others in Congress.) As his rallies have swelled in size, his security has increased, coming close to rivaling that given to a sitting president.
His wife, Michelle Obama, voiced concerns about his safety before he was elected to the Senate. Three years ago, she said she dreaded the day her husband received Secret Service protection, because it would mean serious threats had been made against him.
Among friends and advisers, danger is something Mr. Obama rarely mentions.
“It’s not something that I’m spending time thinking about day to day,” said Mr. Obama, who has been given the Secret Service nickname Renegade, a way for agents to quickly identify him. “I made a decision to get into this race. I think anybody who decides to run for president recognizes that there are some risks involved, just like there are risks in anything.”
Not long ago, his advisers worried that some black voters might not support his candidacy out of a fierce desire to protect him. It was a particular concern in South Carolina, but Mr. Obama said he believed the worry was also rooted in “a fear of failure.”
Now that he has won a string of primaries and caucuses in all corners of the country, and built a coalition of black and white voters, failure would seem to be less of an issue. The fears, however, remain.
Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, raised concerns in a letter in January to officials who oversee the Secret Service. While Mr. Obama was already receiving protection, Mr. Thompson said that the intense interest in the election prompted him to make sure that Mr. Obama and the other candidates were offered adequate security.
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