Whatever one might think of Prince Harry’s storytelling about killing Taliban jihadis, the bigger issue is the Taliban’s canny use of his ill-considered statements for propaganda purposes. There are numerous useful idiots worldwide who lapping up whatever jihadis throw their way, particularly if clever language is used. The Taliban is pontificating to Prince Harry as if it were a humane organization.
Taliban spokesman Anas Haqqani went on to state that “he did not expect the International Criminal Court (ICC) to condemn Harry ‘because they are deaf and blind for you. But hopefully these atrocities will be remembered in the history of humanity.”
As humane as Haqqani now pretends to be, the barbarity of the Taliban precedes them.
“Taliban respond to Prince Harry’s claim he killed 25 soldiers in Afghanistan,” by Sarah Do Couto, Global News, January 6, 2023:
Taliban leaders criticized Prince Harry on Friday after the royal wrote in his new memoir Spare that he killed 25 fighters during his second tour of Afghanistan.
The Duke of Sussex, who served in the British Army first as a forward air controller then as a helicopter pilot, wrote in the memoir that the 25 Taliban fighters were “chess pieces removed from the board.”
Harry, 38, wrote that he was neither proud nor ashamed of the deaths, The Telegraph reported after receiving an advance copy of the book set for release next week.
“When I found myself plunged in the heat and confusion of combat I didn’t think of those 25 as people,” Harry wrote, as per Reuters.
Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban aide, responded to Harry’s claims on Twitter.
“Mr. Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return,” he wrote. “Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes.”
Haqqani said he did not expect the International Criminal Court (ICC) to condemn Harry “because they are deaf and blind for you.”
“But hopefully these atrocities will be remembered in the history of humanity,” he concluded.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for the Taliban-led Afghan foreign affairs ministry, also criticized Harry’s comments.
“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,” he said….
Phil Copson says
Toxic nobody Harry Spencer, has just set up his own family – including his wife and two little children aged just one and three – as prime terrorist targets, in return for a couple of head-lines and a few bob in the bank. What a contemptible little weasel he is…
Dano50 says
Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban aide, responded to Harry’s claims on Twitter.
“Mr. Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return,” he wrote. “Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes.”
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Mr. Haqqani,
Many of those your ilk have tortured and killed were NOT EVEN the “chess pieces,” as recognized by the rules of war. In fact, your filth avoids direct confrontation with “chess pieces” whenever possible, JUST to slaughter their families, the women and children. Among the killers of “infidels” NONE of you have any trace of conscience whatsoever. You are guilty of not just war crimes, but pretty much anything else that every religion BUT Islam considers wrong.
Which is why ALL Islamic countries are third world shit holes.
wpm says
This guy and his wife crave media attention so much then complains when they gets it. Only idiots who were soldiers that had to do their duty and kill the enemy brag about it publicly in my humble opinion .Acts of courage under fire is one thing ,bragging about what” fun” it is killing and watching people die is another.
The current Talban is busy killing raping and stealing from different clans ,different families, different villages all living under stone age Islamic laws without any western influence .What ever anyone including the current English royal idiot says ,the Moslems kill far more other rule Moslems ,rape far more Moslem, steal and enslave far more other Moslems without any western influence in their countries. The greats threat to Moslems in Afghanistan is from fellow Moslems who. want their stuff or are from other clans or different sects of the “religion of peace”.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Nothing that Harry even claims to have done can come anywhere near what the Taliban do anywhere in Afghanistan in a week!
wpm says
True the Moslems kill ,rape, steal from ,enslave more Moslems then the “unbelievers” have done in 2000 years they Moslems in Moslem controlled lands have done in the last 200 years. Moslems have meet the true enemy other Moslems they do not want to admitted Islam is the main problem for them to advance from the dark ages they have lived for the last 1400 years. Islam is a cultural, religious, and political dead end ! The plug should have been pulled on Islam 500 years ago ,like the many crazy pagan religions that died out because hey will not accept free will , reject slavery, believe in equal rights under law ,Islam like Nazism, Communist ,and other “new faiths” should have been shit can a long time ago . Not outlawed but cast aside like the KKK to not be accepted in western society.
Keith O says
A lot of people seem willing to criticise Harry for everything he says, doesn’t say, does or doesn’t do. How many of these people have actually been in battle and dropped the hammer on some piece of crap???
I would put forward that he is in a unique position, he is the first member of the royal family to go to war since Prince Andrew, when the Falkland’s war was on and the first as a ground fighter since?????
The brits got themselves, for the first time in hundreds of years, a “warrior prince” and now they haven’t got a clue what to do with him.
As an old digger, I respect the guy and just wish people would leave this vet alone.
wpm says
He is not a “warrior Prince” he and his forever complaining wife are attention addicts. He did his duty kill the enemy in a war against his nation like many others to draw attention on de-human his enemy even if they are “Moslem” is very un- warrior like ” in my eyes.”. If if wants to left along he does not have to reduce humans to pieces on chess board that have to be removed to advance the “game’! Even in world war 2 great Generals in both the British and American armies under great losses and hard times did not refer to German soldiers as chess pieces to be removed !
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Much as I disdain both this ex-prince and his female husband, I don’t think he owes the thugs he killed even an iota of humanity when describing his face-offs w/ them