Posted by Iranian on May 21, 2007, 7:14 pm, in reply to "Iranian--is this you showing off again?" --Previous Message--
209.74.96.17
NO Sorry I am more of a Humanitarian, but I would put Turks, Arabs and the English in the bottom of the sea.
: PHOENIX - A former nuclear engineer
: accused of taking software back to
: his native Iran told
: authorities he was only trying to
: show off for family and friends.
:
: Mohammad Alavi, 49, also told
: FBI agents that he left his job at
: the nation's largest nuclear power
: plant and moved to Iran to be closer
: to relatives, according to records
: obtained by The Arizona Republic.
:
: Alavi, who lived in the U.S. as a
: naturalized citizen for 30 years, is
: charged with violating a trade
: embargo with Iran, which carries a
: maximum penalty of 21 months in
: prison. Trial is set for July 3.
:
: Alavi worked at the Palo Verde
: Nuclear Generating Station west of
: Phoenix for 16 years, until he
: resigned in August and moved to
: Tehran.
:
: The software he downloaded onto his
: personal laptop was part of an
: emergency-training package
: containing details of the plant's
: control rooms, reactors and designs.
: It is not classified, has no links
: to actual plant workings and can't
: be used to affect operations.
:
: Employees were encouraged to
: download the software and work on it
: at home, according to officials with
: the Arizona Public Service Co., the
: Phoenix-based utility company that
: operates Palo Verde.
:
: APS did not know Alavi had left the
: country with the information until
: the Maryland software manufacturer
: reported attempts to access the
: training system from a Tehran
: address.
:
: Alavi was arrested April 8 as he
: stepped off a plane in Los Angeles.
: He was returning to the U.S. with
: his wife for the birth of their
: first child. He is being held
: without bail in Arizona.
:
: Alavi acknowledged downloading the
: software in Iran but said he did it
: to show relatives and a business
: associate, according to court
: records.
:
: The laptop was still in a closet at
: his mother's house in Tehran, he
: said.
:
: He told authorities he was about to
: start a job with an electric-motor
: company in Tehran.
:
: The plant, located in Wintersburg
: about 50 miles west of downtown
: Phoenix, supplies electricity to 4
: million customers in Arizona, New
: Mexico, Texas and California.
:
:
:
Message Thread:
« Back to thread