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Prince 'kills innocent Afghans'
10:46am Wednesday 2nd January 2013 in National News © Press Association 2013
Helicopter pilot Prince Harry, left, is currently stationed at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan
Prince Harry "kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk", while foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed, a controversial Mujahideen leader in the country has declared.
In an outspoken interview, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder and leader of the Hizb-i-Islamia Party in Afghanistan, accused Britain of being dragged into the war to please its American allies and said its role in the conflict would have no significance after 2014.
Hekmatyar, who was designated a terrorist by the US State Department in February 2003, told the Daily Telegraph: "Britain dragged herself into this unjustified, useless but cruel conflict to please the White House.
"The British did not gain anything, instead they lost blood and treasure. They never had a positive role in Afghan affairs and they will not have any significance after 2014.
"I don't understand how the British public accept their children being sent to certain death in order to please American generals."
Of Prince Harry, who spent Christmas in Afghanistan where he is currently serving as an Apache helicopter co-pilot gunner, he said: "The British prince comes to Afghanistan to kill innocent Afghans while he is drunk.
"He wants to hunt down Mujahideen with his helicopter's rockets, without any shame. During the Mujahideen's attack on the American base the prince saw that he was the one about to be hunted and was searching for a hole in which to hide himself."
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "The suggestion that any member of the UK armed forces deployed on operations operates under the influence of alcohol is simply absurd - not least because the consumption of alcohol by UK military personnel is not permitted under any circumstances while deployed in Afghanistan.
"UK troops deployed and remain in Afghanistan to protect our national security by removing what was a safe haven for international terrorism.
"Now, it is Afghan forces that now have lead security responsibility for around 75% of the population in the country and lead up to 80% of conventional partnered operations."
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence(Ministry of Defence)
