Baby Sohail Ahmadi, whose parents handed him to a member of the U.S. military during the chaos of last summer\u2019s evacuation from Afghanistan, was reunited with relatives in Kabul Saturday,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya had passed their then-2-month-old son over the wall at Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 19, fearing that the baby would be crushed by the surging crowd. Although the couple later gained access to the airport and were evacuated to the U.S. \u2014 Mirza had worked as a security guard at the American embassy \u2014 they were unable to locate their son.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0Reuters\u00a0published pictures of the baby in November, Sohail was found with 29-year-old taxi driver Hamid Safi, who had taken him home from the airport to raise as his own. Safi initially refused to return to the child, attempting to use Sohail to secure his own passage to the United States.<\/p>\n

During the following seven\u00a0weeks, Mirza\u2019s father-in-law Mohammad Qasem Razawi accused Safi of kidnapping, and Safi was briefly detained by Taliban police. Finally, though, Safi relented. Sohail was placed with his grandfather, who also lives in Kabul. Mriza and Suraya have already seen Sohail over video chat, and the grandfather plans to send the baby to the U.S. soon.
\nTensions between Razawi and Safi also appear to have cooled. Razawi told\u00a0Reuters\u00a0that he could see Safi and his family were devastated to lose the baby they had been raising for months.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamid and his wife were crying, I cried too, but assured them that you both are young, Allah will give you male child,\u201d Razawi said.\u00a0\u201cNot one, but several. I thanked both of them for saving the child from the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n

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