“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 colleagues 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 US embassy for 10 years, began desperately asking every official he encountered about his baby’s whereabouts. 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.įor the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. But at that moment, Mirza Ali said, the Taliban - which had swiftly taken over the country as US troops withdrew - began pushing back hundreds of hopeful evacuees.
