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Prince Harry has ‘mental problem', say Taliban
 
January 23, 2013
 
 
Prince Harry has ‘mental problem', say Taliban


KABUL (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, "has probably developed a mental problem", the Taliban said on Tuesday."There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the Mujahideen, and now this Prince comes and compares this war with his games, PlayStation or whatever he calls it," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP.Harry, third in line to the throne, said he had killed Taliban insurgents during a 20-week posting flying scores of missions over the restive southern province of Helmand in an Apache attack helicopter. As co-pilot, Harry was in charge of the weapons systems in a two-man cockpit, firing Hellfire air-to-surface missiles, rockets and a 30-millimetre gun."This is a serious war, a historic war, resistance for us, for our people," Mujahid told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location."But we don't take his comments very seriously, as we have all seen and heard that many foreign soldiers, occupiers who come to Afghanistan, develop some kind of mental problems on their way out." Asked by Britain's Press Association if he had killed from the cockpit, Harry said: "Yeah, so lots of people have.”"Take a life to save a life," he shrugged. "If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game." The Taliban have been waging an insurgency in Afghanistan for 11 years since being ousted from power for harbouring al-Qaeda chief Osama bin laden after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

 
 
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