An Afghan baby was lifted to safety by a U.S. Marine in Kabul. Here's what happened to her
CBSN
Phoenix, Arizona — The 9-second video became a symbol of the desperation engulfing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. A 16-day-old girl was grabbed by an arm and passed over razor wire to a U.S. Marine at the airport in Kabul.
The girl's father, Hameed, whose full name is not being published for security reasons, had been at the Kabul airport throughout August helping the Marines with evacuations. On the other side of the wall, he could see his wife and baby through a fence and feared that they would be crushed to death in the chaos. He asked a Marine standing on a vehicle to help pull his daughter to safety.
It was the first time he met his daughter, whose name is Liya. Hameed, a linguist and cultural adviser, had missed her birth because he was assisting the U.S. and hadn't left the airport.
