{"id":1229,"date":"2003-08-19T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/19\/why-was-the-baby-in-the-box-please\/"},"modified":"2003-08-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T13:16:44","slug":"why-was-the-baby-in-the-box-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/19\/why-was-the-baby-in-the-box-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was the Baby in the Box, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a689'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Two British soldiers saved a newborn baby they found while searching<br \/>\n        an munitions dump in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of<br \/>\n        Defense said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The soldiers took the baby, who they found nestling in a box full of weapons,<br \/>\nto a military hospital, where she is recovering.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I want to know is WHY WAS THE BABY IN THE BOX IN THE FIRST<br \/>\n          PLACE? It would make more sense if they had found automatic weapons<br \/>\n          in the baby&#8217;s<br \/>\n        crib.&nbsp; Hiding weapons makes sense.&nbsp; But why hide a baby?&nbsp; In<br \/>\n        a closed metal box of weapons? Were they afraid the British soldiers<br \/>\n        would take the baby?&nbsp;Are babies illegal in occupied Iraq? This<br \/>\n        story is driving me crazy, and I hope details emerge later in the day.<br \/> <br \/>\n        <\/em><br \/>\n&quot;During a search operation in Basra, which recovered a quantity of small<br \/>\narms and rocket-propelled grenades, troops from the Queen&#8217;s Lancashire Regiment<br \/>\nfound a prematurely born baby girl who had been hidden in a metal box and appeared<br \/>\nclose to death,&quot; a Ministry of Defense statement said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The child was successfully revived and taken to hospital, where she is<br \/>\nreported to be doing well.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2003\/08\/19\/warehouses_pipeline_on_fire\">from<br \/>\n    the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British soldiers saved a newborn baby they found while searching an munitions dump in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of Defense said yesterday. The soldiers took the baby, who they found nestling in a box full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/19\/why-was-the-baby-in-the-box-please\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}