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Andrew Neil says Prince Harry’s ‘unseemly’ claims about killing Taliban will ‘haunt him’

Andrew went on to say it was “unsavoury” of the Duke to be “proud of kills made from the world's most advanced and sophisticated attack helicopter” when the enemy was “armed largely with Soviet-era AK47 rifles.”In his new column for the Daily Mail, the journalist went on to accuse Harry of “breaching” the “long-standing convention” among British military veterans of all ranks that they “don't talk much about the wars they waged, and never about 'kills’.”Since Harry’s alleged claims were made public,Taliban leaders have lashed out at Harry's assertions in his new bombshell book Spare that he killed more than two dozen Taliban fighters who he regarded as "chess pieces" to be taken off the board.One leader branded the Duke of Sussex a "loser", while another accused the 38-year-old of "war crimes".Anas Haqqani took to Twitter today in the wake of the explosive claims made in the Prince's memoir where he has, unusually for a former soldier, chosen to reveal a body count stacked up during his second tour of Afghanistan as a gunner in Apache attack helicopters.Mr Haqqani, a leading figure in the Haqqani Network, part of the Taliban in Afghanistan, expressed his outrage at the Duke of Sussex's comments.He wrote on Twitter: "The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return.“Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes."Writing for Express.co.uk former British Army Commander Colonel Richard Kemp said letting it be known how many fighters he killed "will re-kindle jihadist animosity against him and incite some who want to take revenge".He said: "His accusation that the British Army trains its
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