Prince has ‘mental problem’ -Taliban
AFGHANISTAN: Britain's Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents
in Afghanistan to playing video games, has probably developed a mental
problem, the Taliban said 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. He described the weapons systems as a joy.
“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 Monday after the end of
his posting.
“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.”
AFP |