Prince Harry “inflicted some irreversible wounds” by opening up about his time in the British Army in his memoir Spare, a commentator has claimed.
Maureen Callahan claimed that Prince Harry “compromised the safety” of his “comrades” by describing what he saw and did as a gunner in an Apache attack helicopter in Afghanistan in 2012.
In the autobiography, Harry said he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in the Army – a claim that led counter-terrorism officers to say he might need extra security.
Talking to Nana Akua on GBN America, Ms Callahan said: “My father was a veteran of the Vietnam War. Anybody who knows or loves a veteran or who has served knows that the one thing they hold the most sacred is what they saw and had to do.”
“The true soldier never talks about that. They just don’t. Harry inflicted some irreversible wounds with that memoir and the subsequent interviews he did are terrible.”
In his explosive memoir, Prince Harry divulged the harrowing details of “taking human lives” during his time on the Helmand frontlines as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner.
He said he did not see those he killed “as people” but rather as “chess pieces” to be removed from the game, writing: “It was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either.”
Following the release of ‘Spare’, a senior Taliban figure lashed out at the Duke, insisting that the militants he killed were “not chess pieces, they were humans”. Anas Haqqani, a prominent Taliban leader, took to Twitter to condemn Harry’s admissions, writing: “Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return. Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes.”
Adding to the backlash, 32 year old Taliban commander Molavi Agha Gol also slammed the Duke, suggesting that Harry “needs a doctor” and accusing him of seeking attention through his tell-all book.
From Islam Qala, a town on the border with Iran, Gol told MailOnline: “We are still here ruling but he has fled to his grandmother’s palace. He’s a big mouth loser who has been trying to get attention.”
Gol further dismissed Harry’s comments about the Mujaheddin, branding him a “loser” and questioning his courage: “I do not even believe what he said about the Mujaheddin.
“He is a loser and scared to go to a combat zone. We made history by kicking him and his army out of our homeland and he should be very angry about that.”
