By Shirley Farmer 
According to Tim Collins, a British Army reserve colonel, Prince Harry’s revelations in his book about the death toll in Afghanistan when he was in the service of the British Army are “gross” and he adds that he should not speak publicly about military missions because in doing so you are putting yourself at risk.
“Harry has now turned on his other family, the Army,” said the colonel, who became famous for his speech at the start of the Iraq war, where he served as a soldier.
“This is not the way we behave in the army, this is not the way we think,” Collins said of the Prince’s novel about the downed fighters, considering the book a “tragic blow to making money.”
to me WatchmanMany military experts are of the opinion that no one should dehumanize the rebels by calling them “chess pieces taken off the board,” as Prince did in the book.
Harry states in the book that he considered these people to be “chess pieces” removed from the game, as he was instructed in military training, where he says it is “impossible” to shoot a target “if you think it is a person”.
Ben McBean, a former marine who lost an arm and a leg in Afghanistan in 2008 and whom the Duke of Sussex describes in the book as a “real hero”, urged Harry to keep quiet:
He wrote on Twitter: “We love you so much Prince Harry but shut up!”
The Taliban government has accused the emir of committing war crimes during his tenure in Afghanistan 10 years ago.
Harry has been deployed to Afghanistan twice, first in 2007 and 2008, during which time he was responsible for coordinating airstrikes, and again in 2012 and 2013, then a helicopter pilot.
Cameras installed in the nose of the helicopter made it possible to assess the success of the missions, as well as to accurately determine the number of people shot down.
Harry justified his actions with the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States, stressing that he believed that the enemies he was fighting in Afghanistan had committed a crime against humanity.
A senior official in the Afghan regime today criticized Prince Harry for revealing in a book that he shot down 25 Taliban during his military service in Afghanistan and accusing him of “war crimes”.
“All those who [Harry] The dead weren’t chess pieces, they were people, they had families. Anas Haqqani, an influential member of the Afghan government, told the British newspaper, “Among the Afghan killers there are few who have the decency to confess to war crimes.”
Afghan government spokesman Bilal Karimi Hari was also critical.
Karimi wrote on her personal account on Twitter, “These crimes are not limited to Harry, but to all the occupying powers that committed such crimes in our country. Afghans will never forget the crimes of the occupiers.”
The remarks appear in Spear, the autobiography of Prince Harry, which will be released on January 10 in the UK, and which previously went on sale in Spain.by mistake’, titled “En La Sombra” (“In the Shadow”, in Portugal).
In a short excerpt that became known on Thursday, one can read Harry’s confessions Such as assaulting his brother, heir to the throne, William. Incidentally, the title of the book “Spear” may refer to an old adage about kings being “heir and alternate.” The first son is heir to titles, power, and wealth, and the second is a surrogate, if anything should happen to the first-born.
(News updated at 8:30 p.m.)
* With Lusa