Fri 06 January 2023:
“My number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote.
In a soon-to-be-published autobiography, Prince Harry has admitted to murdering 25 people in Afghanistan while operating an Apache helicopter, according to the British media.
Harry, the duke of Sussex, served in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 as a forward air controller and again from 2012 to 2013 as an attack helicopter pilot.
The 38-year-old is due to release a book, Spare, in the next week, in which he revealed that he undertook six missions as a pilot that led to him “taking human lives”, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Harry said he was neither proud nor ashamed of doing so. He also described eliminating the targets as like removing “chess pieces” from a board.
“My number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote.
Video cameras mounted on the nose of his Apache helicopter enabled him to assess his missions – and determine with certainty how many he had killed.
The prince explained his justification for his actions because of the 9/11 attacks in the United States and meeting families of the victims.
He said those responsible and their sympathisers were “enemies of humanity” and fighting them was an act of vengeance for a crime against humanity.
The US-led foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 after 20 years of military occupation that left tens of thousands of people dead, mostly civilians.
In the already controversial book to be published on January 10, Harry talked for the first time about the number of Taliban fighters he killed during his service.
He served in the British Army for 10 years, rising to the rank of captain, and has described his time in the military as his formative years.
There have been security concerns because of Harry’s military service, which are likely to increase after he revealed the number of people he has killed during that time.
The Telegraph quoted extracts from the Spanish version of the autobiography it obtained after the book was mistakenly put on sale in bookshops on Thursday before being withdrawn.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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