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Taliban: Prince Harry Shouldn't Kill

'Captain Wales' to return to Afghanistan this year; he'll be Taliban target

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 10, 2012 1:40 AM CST

(Newser) – Newly qualified Apache helicopter pilot Prince Harry is expected to return to Afghanistan for a tour of duty this year, and the people he might be shooting at aren't happy about it. "A prince should use his position to help people, not to come and kill people around the world," a Taliban spokesman tells the Telegraph. Harry, whose training included a stint in the US, is expected to serve as a co-pilot gunner in a two-man crew.

British authorities ordered a media blackout during Harry's tour of Afghanistan as an infantryman in 2008, but they have decided he is less vulnerable this time, despite Taliban threats. "We will use all our power to kill or capture the prince," the Taliban spokesman vowed, although he claimed Harry would be treated like any other prisoner if captured. Harry's older brother, William, meanwhile, is serving as a helicopter pilot in the Falkland Islands—and Argentina is angry about it.

Harry greets fans as he leaves a church service behind Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. (Getty Images)

Britain's Prince Harry waves as he attends the Royal family Christmas Day church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, eastern England, on December 25, 2011. (Getty Images)

Prince Harry prepares his Apache helicopter for a training mission in California last year. (AP Photo/Sgt Russ Nolan RLC/MoD)

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finkster

Feb 10, 2012 3:55 PM CST

"Taliban: Prince Harry Shouldn't Kill" Yea...killings only for hypocrites like you...right Taliban?

Moon

Feb 10, 2012 3:16 PM CST

They also mentioned, in case anybody didn't know, that they themselves were NOT Princes, so this morality doesn't apply to them. WTF?

Scaramouche

Feb 10, 2012 10:38 AM CST

"A prince should use his position to help people, not to come and kill people around the world," Uh, I guess they've never heard of, well, every other prince in the history of the planet. Cesare Borgia is spinning in his grave.

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