A former British officer criticized Prince Harry’s characterization of his time with the army as “misjudged” and said it “does not reflect reality”.
“That’s not the case at all, and it’s not the way the British Army trains people as they claim,” Colonel Richard Kemp, a former British Army officer, said during an appearance on BBC Breakfast. “I think that kind of comment, which does not reflect reality, is misleading and potentially valuable to those people who want to do harm to the British forces and the British government, so I think it was a misjudgment.”
Kemp, who commanded UK forces in Afghanistan in 2003, clarified his comments to Fox News Digital, saying: “The British military’s mischaracterization of training its soldiers to treat its enemy as less than human will fuel jihadist propaganda that radicalizes and incites extremists to carry out attacks”.
“It’s already been taken advantage of by the Taliban, who charged Prince Harry with war crimes based on what’s in his book,” Kemp said. “His excellent military reputation will be tarnished because he has misrepresented the spirit of the British Army and its soldiers,” Kemp added.
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Representatives for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital by press time.
Former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, speaks during a side event with world military experts to contradict the Gaza report and after the launch of the 2014 Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza Conflict report in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 29, 2015.
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Harry wrote in his memoirs that the army trained him to “other” his opponents, the Taliban, and that the army “trained me well” in this regard. He served as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan and called strikes, which resulted in 25 deaths.
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“In truth, you can’t hurt people if you see them as people,” Harry said of his military service. “They were chess pieces taken off the board, the bad ones removed before the good ones are killed. I was trained for ‘other’ them and they trained me well.”
Kemp, during his BBC breakfast appearance, noted that the prince should be “proud” of his death count due to its “effect shock” and for his work defending wounded soldiers, but was concerned that the memories could “provoke” the Taliban and sympathizers
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“It inflames old feelings of vengeance that might have been forgotten…no doubt there are people in the world today who would have seen this by now and are thinking of taking it back,” Kemp explained, accusing the prince. to “turn on” his military family.
Britain’s Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Kerry Kennedy, Chairman of RFK Human Rights, attend the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala in New York City , USA, on December 6, 2022.
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The comments have already sparked an angry response from the Taliban, with Taliban leader Anas Haqqani writing on Twitter that Harry had the “decency” to reveal his “war crimes”.
“Our innocent people were chess pieces for their soldiers, military and political leaders,” Haqqani wrote. “Still, you were defeated in that ‘game’ of black and white ‘square’.”
Haqqani added that he did not expect the International Criminal Court to act on what Harry has written, because they are “deaf and blind” to him.
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A Defense Ministry spokesman said the ministry had no comment and does not comment on “individual claims of this kind.”
