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Taliban say Harry killed civilians

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Falalalalalalaetc · 07/01/2023 15:05

In totally totally unsurprising development.

Taliban says Harry killed civilians

“We checked and found that the days on which Prince Harry is mentioning the killing of 25 mujaheddin, we did not have any casualties in Helmand,” Taliban leader Anas Haqqani told Al Jazeera on Friday. “It is clear that civilians and ordinary people were targeted.”

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Alexandra2001 · 07/01/2023 19:17

Harry should have remembered what happened to Salman Rushdie.. decades after the original threat made.

HoppingAndHoping · 07/01/2023 19:20

FortunaMajor · 07/01/2023 19:05

I think you are completely missing my point. Harry wants the Royal Protection back that he had when he was a working royal. You can't buy this, it's provided by a special branch of The Met. He wants this, not his own bodyguards that he pays for himself whether they are armed or not.

The Met have said he can't have this security any more. He took them to court over it. Can they really refuse it not the threat level to him has significantly increased?

I'd be far more worried about security in the US tbh.

Megan1992xx · 07/01/2023 19:20

Imagine how we would feel if the Afghani military pitched up in Basingstoke and started machine gunning people on the way to Waitrose?

LadyMary50 · 07/01/2023 19:20

JamSandle · 07/01/2023 15:28

We obviously can't take the word of the Taliban as truth.

But you will take the word of a paranoid narcissist 😏

rumship · 07/01/2023 19:22

LadyMary50 · 07/01/2023 19:20

But you will take the word of a paranoid narcissist 😏

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😂oh how very true...

smilesy · 07/01/2023 19:24

Megan1992xx · 07/01/2023 19:20

Imagine how we would feel if the Afghani military pitched up in Basingstoke and started machine gunning people on the way to Waitrose?

Errm.. what’s your point?

KnickerlessParsons · 07/01/2023 19:37

HirplesWithHaggis · 07/01/2023 15:26

I haven't read the book, but does Harry give specific dates, times, and location co-ordinates?

From what I've read in the press he gave enough information for them to be able to work it out.

Redblanky · 07/01/2023 19:38

Surely it doesn't matter if "we" believe the Taliban, the fact.is Taliban supporters will believe them.

Even if the "news" was "British Prince braggs about killing 25 Taliban" it increases the risk formall of us. If their spin is "British Prince killed 25 Muslim civilians and lied about it" well...

An anyone who knows anything about the Taliban (or any other war maker) could have predicted this this is exactly what they would do. The man's supposed to have been through Sandhurst FGS.

Suzi888 · 07/01/2023 19:41

Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013.

smilesy · 07/01/2023 19:44

Suzi888 · 07/01/2023 19:41

Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013.

@BMW6 can I join you in a head bang? 😂😂

CPL593H · 07/01/2023 19:45

I don't believe a word the (vile) Taliban say. I also know that while they don't really operate outside Afghanistan, they have plenty of fellow travellers who do. Harry was incredibly unwise to say what he did, to say anything more than something fairly anodyne about the awfulness of war and the comradeship of the armed forces. Even if he was somehow trying to be honest, it was stupid and if what we've read so far is in any way accurate, does not present him in a good light.

General Colin Powell wrote about the first dead body he ever saw as a young lieutenant in Vietnam. He said this man was lying in a gully (I don't think he even said whether it was a US soldier or a member of the Viet Cong) but he had never forgotten it, never should forget it it and carried it with him through his life as a remembrance of what war actually is.

The quotes we've seen so far do not indicate this degree of reflection from Harry .

Redblanky · 07/01/2023 19:52

Suzi888 · 07/01/2023 19:41

Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013.

Well I'm not sure but I heard someone is busy publicising a book

Lostinalibrary · 07/01/2023 19:53

Suzi888 · 07/01/2023 19:41

Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013.

Because the Taliban are now in power again. The political landscape has changed hugely. Anyone who doesn’t understand that needs to give their head a good wobble - including him.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 07/01/2023 19:56

Why did he need to kick this particular hornets' nest?

Just how stupid can he be?

rumship · 07/01/2023 19:57

Suzi888 · 07/01/2023 19:41

Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013.

Did you actually read the thread 😒

How can people be so tone deaf...

Nanalisa60 · 07/01/2023 19:57

Very stupid

Livelovebehappy · 07/01/2023 20:04

What an absolute dick he is…

queenofarles · 07/01/2023 20:04

I don’t think many realise , including Harry , Taliban is not AlQaeda , how could he connect Taliban to 9/11? How could he say i killed 25 of them , terribly ignorant .
, both Groups were in agreement but there are differences.
Taliban is a political movement, one that is now taken over Afghanistan after the disastrous US withdrawal. Taliban ideology is to implement extremely strict sharia laws, going back to tribal values in Pashtun regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan,

AlQeada carried out attacks in many places like 9/11 , Africa, Yemen etc.

does he even know the difference?

TiddyTidTwo · 07/01/2023 20:06

"Why is this headlines? He said it in 2013"

When we and the US were in control.2022 is different by a long chalk.

BMW6 · 07/01/2023 20:06

smilesy · 07/01/2023 19:44

@BMW6 can I join you in a head bang? 😂😂

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Oh please do. I like a bit of company esp if they have more than 2 brain cells

Moomoola · 07/01/2023 20:09

Surely his book was read by advisors etc?
or was he manoevered into it and conned into not being able to stop it?

Megan1992xx · 07/01/2023 20:11

If there was any country that deserved to be invaded after 911 that country was Saudia Arabia.
If Afghanistan had had the good fortune to have oil the US and the rest would have been to busy brown nosing them.

DownNative · 07/01/2023 20:11

FortunaMajor · 07/01/2023 19:05

I think you are completely missing my point. Harry wants the Royal Protection back that he had when he was a working royal. You can't buy this, it's provided by a special branch of The Met. He wants this, not his own bodyguards that he pays for himself whether they are armed or not.

The Met have said he can't have this security any more. He took them to court over it. Can they really refuse it not the threat level to him has significantly increased?

They can keep refusing to, yes. Especially as Harry has deliberately attracted the attention of the Taliban and made himself a target once again.

He should be made to deal with the consequences of his own foolish actions now.

Do you think any army veteran would get specialist security if they deliberately attracted the attention of, say, the Provisional I.R.A in a similar manner?

Not a chance. They're essentially left to it. Harry, like them, is now a private citizen and not a working Royal. The British Taxpayer should NOT be funding any of his security.

smilesy · 07/01/2023 20:13

BMW6 · 07/01/2023 20:06

Oh please do. I like a bit of company esp if they have more than 2 brain cells

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I have a feeling that he amount of head banging that is necessary here would result in a loss of all our brain cells 🤪😂

Snippedasababy · 07/01/2023 20:17

I think they could refuse.

They could even argue that his presence at anything event, like the coronation, increases the risk to his family and the general public.

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