Why is the Peoples Republic of China Assisting in the Harassment of American Dissidents?

Many Internet websites aimed at opposing war with Iraq have become the targets of smear and harassment campaigns. One form of harassment involves email spoofing. Many activist websites maintain mailing lists for the purpose of disseminating breaking news. Harassers, usually pro-Zionist in their aims, send forged emails using the email address of the activists' account. The message contain statements seeking to defame the antiwar activists owning the dissident websites. Examination of the headers often reveal the actual source of the emails. These emails have come from many countries, including the United States, Israel, Lebanon, and Australia. However, I find it particularly irritating that some of the more virulent are coming from the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The PRC does not support a war with Iraq. The PRC has tight control over the use of the Internet within the PRC. Consequently, it is difficult to believe that these harassment campaigns run out of the PRC operate without the PRC's consent. One must conclude that the PRC condones the harassment of American dissidents.

The most recent campaign out of the PRC targeted a well known dissident Internet site. Spoofed emails calling for Jihad and making terroristic statements were send out, fraudulently, in the name of that site's webmaster. These spoofed emails originated at the following company located in Hong Kong:

KARCE International Holdings Company Limited
29/F., Unit 1-2, Cable TV Tower,
HOI SHING RD,, TSUEN WAN
NT HK

Please contact this company and let them know that you do not appreciate their harassment of American dissidents: Web Form

The IP address of the harasser is: 203.198.73.126

The Intranet address of the harasser (within the company's LAN) is 127.0.0.1

The salient portion of the spoofed email's header is:

Received: from unknown (HELO karce.com) (203.198.73.126)by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 22:47:09 -0000
Received: from localhost (mail [127.0.0.1])by karce.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0OMfui12692for <thefalloutshelter@yahoogroups.com>; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 06:41:57 +0800

Also, you may wish to contact the Chinese Embassy, send them a link to this article, and demand that they stop harassing Americans opposed to war in Iraq: chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn