[ISN] Hacker gives Kuomintang Web site pro-Chinese look with PRC photos

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Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 22:49:43 PDT

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    http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/05/10/1084154781.htm
    
    2004-05-10 
    Agence France-Presse 
    
    A person claiming to be a Chinese military veteran has hacked into the
    Web site of the opposition Kuomintang and replaced its homepage with
    pro-China photos, a party official said yesterday.
    
    One photo shows a soldier with the People's Liberation Army aiming a
    rifle at a target while the other shows two men raising the national
    flag of the People's Republic of China, KMT spokesman Justin Chou
    (©P¦u°V) told AFP.
    
    The hacker has also written "I'm proud of being a Chinese and a
    Chinese veteran" in Chinese, and China's national anthem now plays as
    the Web site's background music, Chou said.
    
    The KMT has closed the Web site and filed a complaint with the police,
    he said.
    
    "We strongly condemned the move," Chou said.
    
    Taiwan split with China in 1949 at the end of a civil war and tensions
    have remained between the two neighbors. Beijing still considers
    Taiwan a province of China awaiting reunification, by force if
    necessary, and has threatened to invade if the island declares its
    independence.
    
    The KMT maintained a 51-year long grip on power until being ousted by
    President Chen Shui-bian's (³¯¤ô«ó) Democratic Progressive Party in
    2000.
     
    
    
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