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After Prince Harry boasted about killing 25 soldiers in Afghanistan on Friday, the Taliban demanded that he stand trial for war crimes. Former UK military leaders are concerned that this may “incite” assassination attempts.
Anas Haqqani, the interior minister for the fundamentalist group, insisted on Twitter that leaked passages of the exiled royal’s memoir “Spare” amounted to him admitting to “war crimes.”
Dear Harry! The 25 Taliban soldiers Harry admitted to killing during a 2012 tour of Afghanistan were not chess pieces; rather, they were living, breathing people with waiting families, wrote Haqqani.
Few Afghan killers “have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes,” the author wrote.
The youngest son of the infamous Haqqani terror network’s founder, the interior minister, was furious with the young prince when he admitted that he did not see those he killed “as people,” but rather as “chess pieces removed from the board.”
Regarding the estranged son of King Charles III, Haqqani wrote, “The truth is what you’ve said; Our innocent people were chess pieces to your soldiers, military, and political leaders.”
He gloated over the Taliban’s return to power following the humiliating withdrawal of Western troops: “Still, you were defeated in that ‘game.
The prince should be brought before a “international court” after “proudly confessing [the] crime,” according to Khalid Zadran, the Taliban’s police spokesman in Kabul, who was speaking to The Telegraph.
“Prince Harry will never be forgotten… The murder of their innocent countrymen will never be forgotten by Afghans, according to Zadran, who also insisted that the confessional helped justify the Taliban’s own brutality toward the NATO troops that were occupying Afghanistan at the time.
“Harry and others’ cruel and barbaric acts incited the Afghan populace, which resulted in an armed uprising against them. This sort of uprising is known as holy jihad, according to Zadran.
“Such criminals will someday be brought before the international court, and criminals like Harry who proudly confess their crimes will be brought before the court table in front of the international community.”
The prince would not be brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the interior minister Haqqani acknowledged, but he also issued ominous warnings that his confession would not be forgotten.
Because they are deaf and blind for you, he wrote in a tweet, “I don’t expect that the ICC will summon you or the human rights activists will condemn you.
But hopefully these crimes against humanity will be recorded in human history.
Retired UK military leaders who fear it will “incite” more violence against Harry as well as other veterans and active troops are outraged and horrified by Harry’s blasé recollection, in which he admits his personal tally of kills doesn’t “embarrass” him.
One of those worried that the Taliban and its extremist supporters might be “motivated to kill Harry” was Colonel Richard Kemp, who assumed command of the British forces in Afghanistan in 2003 before retiring.
Kemp said on Sky News, “Let’s hope they don’t succeed,” disputing Harry’s assertion that the British military treated its adversaries as less than human.
He cautioned that this would encourage some individuals to attempt an attack on British soldiers anywhere in the world and added that veterans would also be in danger.
He cautioned that it would have “re-incited those people who wish him harm,” saying “the impact on his own personal security is even greater.”
It jeopardizes his sense of security. Kemp also told The Sun, “He has shot himself in the foot.
When comparing Harry’s revelations to the prince’s attacks on royalty, retired colonel Tim Collins told Forces News that the prince had betrayed his former colleagues.
Collins lashed out, saying, “Harry has now turned against the other family, the military, that once embraced him, having trashed his birth family.
“I’m curious about the path he’s taken. The pursuit of wealth that he does not need and his rejection of family and comradely love that he desperately needs have only led to disappointment and misery in the end.