Joshua and Stephanie Mast adopted the orphan daughter of an al-Qaeda foreign fighter jet after finding her in 2019 as the sole survivors of a close conflict in Afghanistan.
Mast detailed his long-standing legal battle to maintain custody of his 5-year-old daughter in this week's “The Episode.” Glenbeck Podcast. ”
The child, a young child at the time, miraculously survived the battle between al-Qaeda foreign fighters and US rangers. According to Joshua, her suspicious biological father died after an hour and a half in “cruel, close combat.” The girl's suspicious mother explodes the explosives tied to her chest as she hugged the newborn.
“[The foreign terrorists] It's a suicide terrorist, because they did a series of things that they call “barricade shooters,” and it barricades themselves, with the presence of family in the room – and come to that room, what? It attracts people who don't surrender even if they do. They'll blow up their families rather than surrender,” Joshua said.
“They were probably sent earlier by the Taliban Shadow government to gather her from the Americans.”
He explained in detail where his daughter recovered during the battle, using what he described as essentially a bazooka by US soldiers and Afghan partner forces after violating the explosives. I explained to blow a hole into it and clear it. The rest of the terrorists.”
Joshua said the explosion was believed to have killed the girl's biological father.
“The Ranger testified under oath, but observed that he was a biological mother, who escaped from the hole they had created and cried out at him,” he continued.
Testimony said Joshua exploded the explosive device held on her chest as her mother hugged her daughter.
“She was about six weeks old,” Joshua said, referring to the child. “She had a broken skull, her broken left femur, and she had to put a rod in to get it back, so she had a second burn on her face and neck.”
He said that his Afghan partner is fighting alongside the rangers, causing the infant to be forced to be killed, and that he fears that she will become a terrorist.
“They kept the victim and were very angry about it. They literally came to our rangers, and they said, “Let's shoot her in the head…. Let's throw her into the stream,” Joshua told Beck. “Our companions physically resisted killing our little girl.”
The Mast fought for the child they call baby sparrows, received a visa and moved to the US to receive treatment for their ongoing medical needs. However, Mast said he faced considerable opposition despite obtaining all the documents needed to ensure custody.
Joshua expressed concern that the child should not be handed over to an Afghan orphanage because he is not from Afghanistan. He was also worried that the child would be placed with relatives who would take her to the war zone as well.
He explained that the peace agreement between the US and Afghanistan “exploded” around September 2019. In an attempt to renegotiate, the Taliban denied that the al-Qaeda foreign fighter group, which the child's parents belonged to, existed in Afghanistan.
Joshua said the Taliban had a “strategic interest” in the situation and made progress by claiming several individuals were involved in children, but failed genetic testing.
“Two days before the peace agreement was signed, the US government will hand over her to the ignored one through the embassy's representation, Joshua told Beck.
He added that the young Afghan couple trying to take custody of Baby Sparrow refused to undergo DNA testing to prove their relationship.
Mast gained custody of the child following the Biden administration's failed withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 after helping the child and young couple escape.
Baby Sparrow has been with the Mast ever since, but the Afghan couple is seeking her return.
“When we finally got her, she wasn't the same baby she was in the hospital,” Stephanie said. “When I first saw her, her face was closed, so I actually wondered if it was the same child. She was very afraid and scared. She barely looked up. That was it.”
“The fear and trauma on her face, I've never seen it in a child before,” she added. “When she got home, she had lice, parasites, emotional trauma, just everything.”
Mast explained that their adoption case was before the Virginia Supreme Court as they continue to fight to maintain custody of their children.
“These are not relatives. They knew they were probably not from day one. They were probably sent before by the Taliban Shadow Government to gather her from the Americans,” Joshua said. He told Beck.
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