“I don’t think it is wise that he said that out loud,” said Royal Marines veteran Ben McBean, who knows Harry from their military days. “He’s already got a target on his back, more so than anyone else.”
, first as a forward air controller in 2007-08, and again in 2012, when he was a co-pilot gunner in Apache attack helicopters, and states the number of people he killed.
Spokesperson for the Taliban-led Afghan Foreign Affairs Ministry, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, said: “The Western occupation of Afghanistan is truly an odious moment in human history and comments by Prince Harry is a microcosm of the trauma experienced by Afghans at the hands of occupation forces who murdered innocents without any accountability.”
Retired Colonel Richard Kemp said it was “an error of judgment”, and regarding enemy fighters as chess pieces was “not the way the British Army trains people”.
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