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To: SirRealist who wrote (15910)	1/9/2002 4:16:30 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

First Synchro-Check Device Designed, Built by a Student TEHRAN -- A student from the Electrical Engineering Department of Shahid Chamran University in Ahvaz, majoring in power, Heidarali Raeesi, designed and built the first synchro-check device. The device is applied at high voltage substation switchings and while power houses are being connected to the national network. Raeesi said that the synchro-check relay device is mainly used to check the system's condition and to compare the required set figures before being connected to the national network and also before switchings at the high voltage substations. He added, "The electromechanical type of the device currently used in the country has a high wear-and-tear and a relatively low precision while its switching is sometimes handled manually which is quite risky. He said that the device is built by using a micro-controller which has undergone test by Khuzestan province relay experts. He recalled that research on the current device started as of last spring and was implemented once the complete process of its design, writing its software program, setting up its circuit and its final stages was completed in September. He indicated the dimensions of the device around 10x15 cms and said that it is much better compared to its foreign counterpart both in dimension and production cost. He said if investment would be made to produce the said device domestically, its production cost would be equivalent to one-thirds of its foreign counterpart. Head of Electrical Department of the Engineering Faculty Mahmoud Jourabian, while approving the design and production of the device by Raeesi, said that the synchro-check relay project was implemented under the supervision of engineer Ali Namazi and that the sample device built in the laboratory was verified once it was practically tested, IRNA reported. iran-news.com

To: SirRealist who wrote (15910)	1/10/2002 4:23:00 AM
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Omar emptied central bank (Herald Sun) - KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar fled with $9.5 million stuffed into burlap flour sacks after emptying an Afghan bank of all its cash days after US warplanes started bombing his regime. The one-eyed cleric is believed to be hiding in the mountains of southern Afghanistan with his haul of American dollars and Pakistani rupees. The money, taken from the Kandahar branch of the country's central bank nine days after the first US attack in October, could allow him to evade capture. US intelligence officials warned: "If Omar can get out of Afghanistan, the money will go a long way toward securing safe passage and refuge abroad." The money bags, which once held 90kg of Pakistani flour each, would be a major burden for Omar, believed to be travelling on motorbikes or donkeys with a band of about 50 loyal bodyguards. Fazli Ahmad, the acting manager of the Kandahar bank, told US investigators that Omar withdrew every dollar it had. Hopes of new clues to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar lifted yesterday with the surrender of three former ministers of the ousted Taliban government and the capture of two high-ranking al-Qaeda fighters. US troops captured 14 al-Qaeda members and swept up computers, portable phones and other intelligence prizes near a huge, heavily bombed complex in eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon's top military officer said. US Air Force General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said two of the Taliban were senior enough to have information that might help prevent future al-Qaeda operations. Interrogation of those captured and examination of some of the documents and computer files found with them has yielded valuable information. A spokesman for Kandahar Governor Gul Agha said the ousted Taliban ministers of defence, justice, and mines and industry had given themselves up and have been allowed to return to their homes in the city, but were being kept under surveillance. General Myers said he ex pected the Afghan authorities to hand over the ministers. "Obviously, individuals of that stature in the Taliban leadership are of great interest to the US, and we would expect that they would be turned over," he said. - Article added at 12:32 AM (CST) on 1/10/2002. myafghan.com