One video clip of a small baby in a diaper being hoisted by her arm over razor wire went viral on social media. Mirza Ali said he saw other families handing their babies over the Kabul airport fence to soldiers at the same time. The family is now at Fort Bliss in Texas with other Afghan refugees waiting to be resettled somewhere in the United States. Mirza Ali, 35, Suraya, 32, and their other children, 17, 9, 6 and 3 years old, were put on an evacuation flight to Qatar and then to Germany and eventually landed in the United States. "They said 'we don't have resources to keep the baby here.'"
He said one of the civilian officials he spoke to told him Sohail might have been evacuated by himself. "Every officer - military or civilian - I came across I was asking about my baby." "I spoke to maybe more than 20 people," he said. He said he never got the commander's name, as he didn't speak English and was relying on Afghan colleag ues from the embassy to help communicate. "He walked with me all around the airport to search everywhere," Mirza Ali said in an interview through a translator. He said a military commander told him the airport was too dangerous for a baby and that he might have been taken to a special area for children. Mirza Ali, who said he worked as a security guard at the U.S embassy for 10 years, began desperately asking every official he encountered about his baby's whereabo uts. Once they were inside, Sohail was nowhere to be found. It took the rest of the family more than a half hour to get to the other side of the airport fence. troops withdrew - began pushing back hundreds of hopeful evacuees. soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help.įearing their two-month old baby Sohail would get crushed in the melee, they handed him to the soldier, thinking they would soon get to the entrance, which was only about 16 feet (5 metres) away.īut at that moment, Mirza Ali said, the Taliban - which had swiftly taken over the country as U.S.
19 in a chaotic crowd o utside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a U.S. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug.
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