Troops care for infant left in bag outside FOB Callahan
By Joseph Giordono, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, April 10, 2008
It was a scene that could have ended in tragedy, but ended up being — even for a war zone — simply surreal.
Last week, American soldiers at a base in northern Baghdad watched as a car pulled up to one of the base’s entry points. The car stopped, and a woman emerged holding a large bag. She placed the bag on the ground, got back in the car, and the vehicle drove off.
It had all the markings of a potential bomb attack, and the soldiers responded in kind, sounding alarms and starting a search. What they found inside the bag was far more confounding than a bomb. It was a baby.
“We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive — and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, who is in charge of Forward Operating Base Callahan’s medical aid station, said in an Army news release issued Wednesday.
“He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”
The baby had been wrapped in several cloths and simply left on their doorstep, like something out of an old movie.
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