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The article reports on the move of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to reunite parents with their displaced sons in the U.S. According to the author, the NCMEC set out to reunite families through two methods, old-fashioned shoe-leather work and spreading the word through the media. Moreover, it notes that after Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has appointed NCMEC as the national emergency child location center.

The article reports that Iranian-American media are dismayed, though not surprised, by the news that the U.S. administration is undertaking covert actions in Iran. They warn that an attack on Iran would not promote democracy there or in the Middle East. Writing in the January 20, 2005 issue of "The New Yorker," leading investigative writer Seymour Hersh charged that the close circle of neoconservatives in the government have solidified their power by sidelining the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, have launched covert intelligence-gathering within Iran through the Pentagon, and developed a plan to attack and remove Tehran's nuclear capability. Prominent figures in the Iranian-American media found Hersh's story credible.

Reports on the protest of the Iranians regarding the various harassments of the personnel of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. security agencies. Comments of executive director of the national Iranian American council, Dokhi Fassihian concerning the harassment against the Iranian; Impact of the September 11, 2001 incident on the livelihood of the Iranians; Denial of Iranians' security clearances for federal jobs or contracts.