New York: That is a second separate decision.
Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and five of their children on August 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the kabul airport gate in Afghanistan when a US soldier, from a high fence, asked if they needed help.
Worried about their two-month-old baby, Sohail will be destroyed in riots, they handed it to the soldier, thinking they will immediately go to the entrance, which is only about 16 feet (5 meters).
But at that time, Mirza Ali said, the Taliban – who quickly took over the country when US forces resigned – began to push back hundreds of refugees full of hope.
It took the rest of the family more than half an hour to get to the other side of the airport fence.
Once they are inside, Sohail cannot be found.
Mirza Ali, who said he worked as a security guard at the US Embassy for 10 years, began to despair asking every official he met about the existence of his baby.
He said a military commander told him the airport was too dangerous for babies and that he might have been taken to a special area for children.
But when they got there it was empty.
“He walked with me around the airport to look everywhere,” said Mirza Ali in an interview through a translator.
He said he had never got the name commander, because he did not speak English and relied on Afghan colleagues from the embassy to help communicate.
Three days passed.
“I speak maybe more than 20 people,” he said.
“Every officer – military or civil – I found I asked about my baby.” He said one of the civil officials he spoke to tell him that Sohail might have been evacuated by himself.
“They said,” We don’t have resources to keep the baby here.
‘”Mirza Ali, 35, Suraya, 32, and their other children, 17, 9, 6 and 3 years, were placed on evacuation flights to Qatar.
And then to Germany and finally landed in the United States.
The family is now on Fort Bliss in Texas with other Afghan refugees who are waiting to be submitted somewhere in the United States.
They don’t have relatives here.
Mirza Ali said he saw another family who handed his baby on the fence of Kabul airport to the same time.
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He then reunited with his parents.
Since the baby’s lost date is blurry, said Mirza Ali.
Everyone who comes – workers, US officials – He told them about Sohail.
“Everyone promised to do the best, but they only promised,” he said.
Afghan refugee support group created a sign “Lost baby” with a sohail image on it and circulates it between their network in the hope that someone will recognize it.
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Government officials who are familiar with the situation said the case had been marked for all institutions involved, including the base A.S.
and overseas locations.
The child was last seen handed over to a US soldier during chaos at Kabul airport but “unfortunately no one could find the child,” the official said.
A spokesman for the Department of Defense and Spokesperson for the US Homeland Security Department, who oversees resettlement efforts, referred to this issue to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because the separation took place abroad.
The State Department did not respond to requests for comments.
Suraya, who also spoke through a translator, said he cried most of the time and that his other children were confused.
“Everything I do is think about my child,” Suraya said.
“Everyone who call me, my mother, my father, my sister, they are all my comfort and say ‘not worried, God is good, your child will be found.”
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