Afghanistan: Desperate women throw babies over razor wire, asking British soldiers to take them

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Day and night families - often with tiny children - have risked their lives, ducking past gunfire at the gates of the civilian side of the airport; passing aggressive Taliban fighters, who occasionally beat and harass them. In the night, the paratroopers blockaded the road with cars and razor wire.

A senior officer told me they had no choice because the situation was out of control, but said the blockade will live with some of his soldiers for the rest of their lives.

"It was terrible, women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them, some got caught in the wire," he told me.

"I'm worried for my men, I'm counselling some, everyone cried last night."

https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-desperate-women-throw-babies-over-razor-wire-at-compound-asking-british-soldiers-to-take-them-12384646?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

[JoanofArgh]

1. Sky is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Got another source that isn't

right wing tabloid fodder?

[Ocelot II]

2. It isn't owned by Murdoch any more. Comcast bought it in 2018.

[JoanofArgh]

5. Same thing. Still right wing.

[rockfordfile]

25. I agree

We continue to get people out.

[Hekate]

3. That explains a lot

[Ocelot II]

4. See #2.

[Atticus]

20. Sky News recently suspended from YouTube for spreading covid disinformation. nt

[JoanofArgh]

21. This proves my point. Thanks, wasn't aware of that.

[Dream Girl]

6. I wonder. Sounds like the babies ripped from incubator during the Iran Iraq war.

[dpibel]

10. Daddy Bush disinfo, actually

The incubator babies story was set in Kuwait, following the invasion by Iraq, and offered as support for the first U.S. was against Saddam Hussein.

[mopinko]

13. yup

[Hekate]

17. Sounds like reports at the beginning of WW I --"The Huns" spearing babies on their bayonets

It is an all-too-common trope guaranteed to stir up “our side” into a white-hot fury.

The problem is, how to verify?

[Dream Girl]

18. I cannot imagine any mom doing that unless certain death was imminent....a burning build for example.

That this happened at this stage stretches credulity.

[Treefrog]

8. Um...

[George II]

11. That took TOO long!

[Treefrog]

12. Yeah, I was beginning to wonder...

[roamer65]

14. I alerted it.

We don’t need that garbage here.

[Treefrog]

15. I read it twice, thinking I'd somehow read it wrong.

Interesting profile.

[George II]

9. Are you serious?

[multigraincracker]

16. Where are the photos and confirmation by others.

BS until then.

[greenjar_01]

19. Oh, yes, and the dastardly Hun used to bayonet the Belgian babes, to the trenches, boyos!

How dumb do they think we are?

[LanternWaste]

22. The Hun or simply the social upheaval at convenience stores requiring shirts...

"How dumb do they think we are?"

Indeed.

[milestogo]

23. This thread is worthless without pictures.

[ansible]

24. Here's one video

Link to tweet