Prince Harry’s autobiography, “Spare: In the Shadow,” has earned him scorn and contempt from both the UK and one of the deadliest terrorist organizations, Al Qaeda.
One of Prince Harry’s shocking revelations—that he had killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan during his sorties between 2012 and 2013—caused a great deal of indignation and made headlines throughout the world. Harry is the son of Princess Diana.
“It wasn’t a statistic that filled me with pride, but it didn’t leave me embarrassed either. When I found myself immersed in the heat and confusion of combat, I did not think of those 25 as people,” he wrote.
In contrast, Prince Harry cautioned in a recent interview that the tabloid press had misrepresented his comments by portraying his adversaries as “chess pieces that needed to be taken off the board” in order to suggest that he was bragging about his prowess in the conflict.
Prince Harry said that he was merely attempting to discuss military culture and the desensitization process he had experienced as a result of his direct participation in combat. His justifications do not appear to have persuaded his critics, who continue to harbor vengeful intentions toward some Islamist extremist groups.
The terrorist organization Al Qaeda, led in those years by the late Osama Bin Laden, gave the order to its members and sympathizers to kill Prince Harry as soon as possible, whom it addresses as Al-Zanim in a harsh article published in the new edition of its magazine One Ummah.
“Prince Al-Zanim’s confession that he killed twenty-five Afghan Muslims in cold blood, and that they were just chess pieces in his eyes, reveals to us the amount of condescension, discrimination and love of criminality in the genes of this human component.”
