The Taliban Says Prince Harry Is a Crazy 'Coward'
Prince Harry may have humble-bragged his way home from Afghanistan, all full of war stories and gunned-down insurgents, but the Taliban isn't having any of it. "Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, said Prince Harry was a 'coward' for speaking only after he was out of harm's way," report The Telegraph's Rob Crilly and Zubair Babakarkhail.
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On Monday, in interviews coordinated with the announcement that he had returned from a five-month tour of duty, Harry described, well, taking out the Taliban:
If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game, I suppose ... Take a life to save a life … the squadron's been out here. Everyone's fired a certain amount.
But the insurgents were particularly incensed with this quote in particular:
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
Comparing killing to video games really rubbed the Taliban the wrong way and prompted them to play psychologist. Harry "has probably developed a mental problem," the Taliban spokesman is quoted as telling the AFP. He added:
This statement is not even worth condemning. It is worse than that ... To describe the war in Afghanistan as a game demeans anyone – especially a prince, who is supposed to be made of better things.
Those are fighting words, and just to be clear, the insurgents represented by the spokesman — the ones calling the prince "demeaning" — fall under the same umbrella organization as the insurgents who saw fit to promise to kill 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for attending school and who aren't strangers to bragging about killing people. "It shows the lack of understanding, of knowledge," the Taliban said spokesman said. Hmm.
