The Taliban responds to Prince Harry

Earlier in January we featured an article with comments by Mujahideen leader, Hekmatyar about Prince Harry killing 'innocent Afghans while drunk'.

I got a comment from someone saying this was 'lies' and 'bullshit'

Well, here's the confirmation.  The prince talks about taking people out, firing an Apache helicopter's weapons system is a 'joy' because he loves playing Playstation.

The mental illness of Prince Harry

Vanity Fair,

22 January, 2013

Poor Captain Wales: as Prince Harry spoke out in a series of video interviews with media outlets that were only just released, he has incurred a response from the Taliban blasting his comments as evidence of “mental problems” or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Harry, who returned Monday to the U.K. at the end of his deployment, was a gunner in an Apache helicopter; when asked by media during the course of his posting whether he had killed Taliban members, he replied, “Yeah, so lots of people have. The squadron’s been out here. Everyone’s fired a certain amount.” He also said that firing the craft’s weapons system is “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.”

Today the Taliban responded through a spokesperson to the AFP, saying, “There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the mujahideen, and now this prince comes and compares this war with his games, PlayStation or whatever he calls it. . . . This is a serious war, a historic war, resistance for us, for our people. . . But we don't take his comments very seriously, as we have all seen and heard that many foreign soldiers, occupiers who come to Afghanistan, develop some kind of mental problems on their way out.”

(Beyond discussing his role in Afghanistan, the prince also touched on his infamous trip to Las Vegas over the summer, saying it was a moment in which he was being “too much Army and not enough prince.” To which we say, the British Army sounds like fun?)