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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Taliban commander claims Prince Harry was primary target of Camp Bastion attack which killed two U.S. Marines
The Taliban have announced that Prince Harry was the main target of an attack last night on his base in Afghanistan, which left two U.S. Marines dead and others injured.
Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles stormed heavily-fortified Camp Bastion, the British HQ in Helmand, in a deadly assault on the ‘aviation area’.
A commander for the radical Islamic movement told Sky News the Prince was their primary target and secondly as revenge for an amateur anti-Muslim video recently posted on YouTube.
'We attacked that base because Prince Harry was also on it and so they can know our anger,' Taliban spokesman Qari Youssef Ahmadi said by telephone.
He added, 'Thousands more suicide attackers are ready to give up their lives for the sake of the Prophet.'
The 27-year-old Royal arrived on the frontline last week to fly Apache attack helicopters - which have the highest ‘kill rate’.
A Ministry of Defence source said: 'After saying this attack was mounted in reaction to the video on Islam, it is entirely predictable that the Taliban have changed their tune to say it was aimed at Captain Wales.
'The insurgency who mounted this attack - most of who were killed by Isaf - were nowhere near Captain Wales, who with other UK and Isaf personnel was under lockdown.'
Two Marines were killed and several other troops injured in the sickening raid, which a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul described as 'complex' and ‘sustained’.
But he added: ‘Prince Harry was in no danger. He wasn’t close to the attack.’
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