Prince Harry's comments on military service may incite Taliban violence, former commander says: 'Propaganda' - Fox News

A erstwhile British serviceman criticized Prince Harry’s characterization of his clip with the subject arsenic "ill-judged" and said it "doesn’t bespeak reality." 

"That’s not the lawsuit astatine all, and it's not the mode the British Army trains radical arsenic helium claims," Col. Richard Kemp, erstwhile British Army officer, said during an quality connected BBC Breakfast. "I deliberation that benignant of remark that doesn't bespeak reality, is misleading and perchance invaluable to those radical who privation the British forces and British authorities harm, truthful I deliberation it was an mistake of judgment."

Kemp, who commanded U.K. forces successful Afghanistan successful 2003, clarified his comments to Fox News Digital, saying "The mischaracterization of the British Army arsenic grooming its soldiers to dainty their force arsenic little than quality volition provender jihadist propaganda that radicalizes and incites extremists to transportation retired attacks." 

"It has already been seized connected by the Taliban, which has accused Prince Harry of warfare crimes connected the ground of what is successful his book," Kemp said. "His fantabulous subject estimation volition beryllium tarnished, due to the fact that helium has misrepresented the ethos of the British Army and its soldiers," Kemp added. 

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Representatives for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, did not respond to a Fox News Digital petition for remark by clip of publication. 

Former Commander of British Forces successful Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp speaks during a broadside lawsuit with World Military Experts to Contradict Gaza Report and aft presumption of study by the Independent Commission of Inquiry connected the 2014 Gaza Conflict successful Geneva, Switzerland, June 29, 2015.  (Reuters/Pierre Albouy)

Harry wrote successful his memoir that helium was trained by the service to "other" his opponents, the Taliban, and that the service "trained maine well" successful this respect. He served arsenic a chopper aviator successful Afghanistan and called successful strikes, which resulted successful 25 kills. 

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"In truth, you can't wounded radical if you spot them arsenic people," Harry said of his subject service. "They were chess pieces taken disconnected the board, atrocious guys eliminated earlier they termination bully guys. They trained maine to 'other' them and they trained maine well."

Kemp, during his BBC Breakfast appearance, noted that the prince should beryllium "proud" of his termination number owed to its "effect impact" and for his enactment to champion wounded soldiers, but helium disquieted that the memoir could "provoke" the Taliban and sympathizers. 

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"It inflames aged feelings of revenge that mightiness person been forgotten astir . . . nary uncertainty astir it, determination are radical successful the satellite contiguous who already would person seen this and volition beryllium reasoning astir getting him back," Kemp explained, accusing the prince of "turning against" his subject family.

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Kerry Kennedy, President of RFK Human Rights be the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala successful New York City, U.S., December 6, 2022.  (Reuters/Andrew Kelly.)

The comments already prompted an angry effect from the Taliban, with Taliban person Anas Haqqani penning connected Twitter that Harry had the "decency" to uncover his "war crimes." 

"Our guiltless radical were chess pieces to your soldiers, subject and governmental leaders," Haqqani wrote. "Still, you were defeated successful that ‘game’ of achromatic & achromatic ‘square’."

Haqqani added that helium did not expect the International Criminal Court to enactment connected what Harry has written, due to the fact that they are "deaf and blind" for him. 

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A Ministry of Defense spokesperson said that the ministry had nary remark and doesn’t contented remark connected "individual claims of this kind."