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Taliban: Prince Harry has a mental problem
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January 23, 2013, Wednesday
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BRITAIN'S Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, has probably developed a mental problem, the Taliban said yesterday.
"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 said.
Harry said he had killed Taliban insurgents during a 20-week posting flying scores of missions over the restive 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-millimeter gun.
"It's a joy for me because I'm one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think I'm probably quite useful," he said in interviews released on Monday.
"This is a serious war, a historic war, resistance for us, for our people," Mujahid said.
"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 if he had killed from the cockpit, he said: "Yeah, so lots of people have.
"Take a life to save a life," Harry shrugged. "If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game."
The last time the Taliban suggested a foreign fighter had mental problems was when a US soldier was arrested on suspicion of killing 16 villagers in their homes during a lone night rampage in March 2012.
"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 said.
Harry said he had killed Taliban insurgents during a 20-week posting flying scores of missions over the restive 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-millimeter gun.
"It's a joy for me because I'm one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think I'm probably quite useful," he said in interviews released on Monday.
"This is a serious war, a historic war, resistance for us, for our people," Mujahid said.
"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 if he had killed from the cockpit, he said: "Yeah, so lots of people have.
"Take a life to save a life," Harry shrugged. "If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game."
The last time the Taliban suggested a foreign fighter had mental problems was when a US soldier was arrested on suspicion of killing 16 villagers in their homes during a lone night rampage in March 2012.
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