Act aids those who help recover U.S. troops

SCRIPPS HOWARD
The Bring Them Home Alive Act allows people in Laos, Vietnam, China, Iraq and the former Soviet Union who help recover U.S. soldiers who served in the Vietnam and Korean wars to come to the U.S. as refugees.
A 2002 amendment extends the law to Iraqis and others in the Middle East who help return a living POW or MIA soldier to U.S. control from the Persian Gulf War in 1991. One soldier, Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, is the only one still classified as "missing-captured."
Two soldiers are missing in Iraq. Both are presumed to be alive. Army Sgt. Keith "Matt" Maupin went missing April 9, 2004, near Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.
An interpreter who married an Iraqi woman went missing last month, said Larry Greer, spokesman of the Department of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. The Pentagon identified him as Spc. Ahmed Kousay Altaie, 41, an Army Reservist soldier kidnapped Oct. 23 outside the Green Zone.