Why Was the Baby in the Box, Please

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 of weapons,
to a military hospital, where she is recovering.

What I want to know is WHY WAS THE BABY IN THE BOX IN THE FIRST
PLACE? It would make more sense if they had found automatic weapons
in the baby’s
crib.  Hiding weapons makes sense.  But why hide a baby?  In
a closed metal box of weapons? Were they afraid the British soldiers
would take the baby? Are babies illegal in occupied Iraq? This
story is driving me crazy, and I hope details emerge later in the day.


"During a search operation in Basra, which recovered a quantity of small
arms and rocket-propelled grenades, troops from the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment
found a prematurely born baby girl who had been hidden in a metal box and appeared
close to death," a Ministry of Defense statement said.

"The child was successfully revived and taken to hospital, where she is
reported to be doing well."

from
the Boston Globe