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Prince Harry has been embroiled in a fresh race row after a video showing him using racist insults was obtained by The News Of The World. The newspaper reports that the tape was made by the third in line to the throne during his Army training. It says the prince is heard calling one Asian trainee "our little Paki friend". The newspaper reported that the videotape was shot by the prince as he was about to embark on training as a combat helicopter pilot in an airport for their flight to Cyprus. Panning around the floor, over his bored or...

PRINCE Harry has won his battle with defence chiefs and will return to Afghanistan's frontline to take up the fight against the Taliban. The third in line to the British throne has already served one tour as a forward air controller directing air strikes against hostile forces less than 500m away. Now the 24-year-old is likely to be more in the thick of it as a lieutenant with the Blues and Royals, an amalgamation of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) and The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) the history of which dates back to the 1600s. After his first deployment, Prince...

Since the story of Prince Harry in Afghanistan broke in late Feb 08, friends and family have [spoken] about service with him. As the lead US advisor in Helmand Province (the “United Kingdom” area of responsibility within Afghanistan), it was almost inevitable that I would see Harry during his tour of duty. However, as events in Late December through early January would transpire, we actually lived on the same tiny base in southern Helmand for a couple of weeks. Another time, with other Americans, I served with Harry on the same operation for almost two weeks in Northern Helmand. Throughout,...

Prince Harry learns why 4th is first A call comes in from somewhere in the desert. A Joint Tactical Air Controller on the ground in Afghanistan's Helmand province needs air support. He and his comrades are taking fire from a trench line. * Hundreds of miles away, Capt. Ben Donberg can hear the gunshots. He is the command pilot on the other end of that call. His F-15E Strike Eagle and another, both assets of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base's 4th Fighter Wing, are on their way -- "very, very fast." * Back on the ground, "WIDOW 67" waits. He...

AN Australian women's magazine has apologised for breaking a global media blackout on Prince Harry's frontline deployment in Afghanistan. In its latest issue, New Idea magazine says it is sorry it was not "alert to the possible ramifications" of running the story about Harry's secret tour of duty, which appeared in the magazine and on its website in January. Few people noticed the initial report, but a scandal erupted after US website the Drudge Report picked up the story and broadcast it around the world, breaching an agreed global media blackout. "We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were...

Military chiefs are investigating a soldier who tried to cash in on Prince Harry's secret frontline posting to Afghanistan by blowing his cover during the agreed news blackout . The inquiry centres on photographs of Harry witnessing the beheading of a live goat during Christmas Day celebrations with the Gurkhas just 10 days after his arrival in the southern province of Helmand. They were offered to a tabloid newspaper in defiance of strict orders to all serving personnel who knew of his posting that it was imperative the information be kept highly confidential. -snip- The extraordinary pictures were taken at...

"Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo joked on Monday's show that Britain's Prince Harry "has been over in Afghanistan fighting because he's expendable." Fellow host Robin Roberts appeared somewhat shocked by the comment and sputtered, "What did you say?" Cuomo, who was previewing an ABC special on the royals, didn't back off his assertion and reiterated, "It's true. The reason that Harry is allowed to be in Afghanistan is because he's not the heir to the throne. William's not allowed to be there." -snip-

The problem, of course, is that both sides have a motive in wanting this to be true, the Brits to make Harry look that much more heroic and the jihadis to suggest they can penetrate even royal secrets. The Taliban was aware that Britain’s Prince Harry was on active army duty in Afghanistan and was looking to “take him out,” according to a longtime royals watcher.Robert Jobson, author and Royal Correspondent for the London Evening Standard said on The Early Show Monday that the Taliban learned of Harry’s presence by late last year, and hoped to “take him out and...

<p>Written and posted in haste, it contained even more grammatical slips than usual webspeak. But it didn't miss its target: "The Drudge Report is a Heap of Shit US-based news aggregation website run by Matt Drudge, Who is a C***... Occasionally Drudge authors news stories himself, such as the one about prince harry being deployed. what a tit."</p>

Despite the british government's concerted effort to preserve the secret, a veteran Taliban field officer claims he was scarcely surprised by the disclosure that Prince Harry was serving with Britain's troops in southern Afghanistan. Fearing that insurgents would specifically target Cornet Wales (the prince's military title) and his fellow soldiers if his presence in the battle zone were publicly revealed, the top British brass did everything possible to prevent leaks about his deployment on Dec. 14 to Helmand province. But talking to newsweek via satellite phone from that region last week, deputy commander Mullah Abdul Karim recalled getting an urgent...

It is worth fighting in Afghanistan Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 01/03/2008 Have your say Read comments Most of us enjoy the sight of a young man taking pride in wearing the Queen's uniform. We only hope that the fuss made about Prince Harry over the past 48 hours will serve to draw attention to the other men and women carrying the fight to our enemies in the Afghan hills. A good deal of anti-war feeling was generated by the Iraq invasion, and some of it inevitably spilt over into Afghanistan. But, whatever the controversy surrounding Iraq, there is no question...

Prince Harry is back in London after a short-lived stint on the frontlines in Afghanistan. The prince was pulled out of the war zone after a media leak blew the cover on his deployment in Afghanistan since December. Second Lieutenant, Prince Harry was welcomed at an airfield outside London by his father Prince Charles and brother Prince William. He returned after serving only 10 weeks with British troops in Afghanistan, after the foreign press leaked news of his secret deployment. The prince is far from happy at being dragged back from the front. ''At the end of the day if...

LONDON (AFP) - Prince Harry, who has been fighting the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan, admitted in an interview released Thursday that he sometimes wishes he was not a privileged, well-known royal. Speaking to reporters before he left for the war-torn country in an interview that was supposed to be held back until his safe return, the 23-year-old said he hoped that he would be treated as "just a normal officer". And asked whether, following an about-turn by Britain's top military brass that meant he would not be posted to Iraq last year, he ever wished he was...

Now the world knows Prince Harry is in Afghanistan, the question on many lips is whether it was right for the media to keep quiet about it for so long.

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London, England (BANG) - Britain's Prince Harry has started training in Canada in preparation for a possible posting to Afghanistan. The 22-year-old prince flew to Alberta's British Army Training Unit in Suffield to take part in exercises involving live ammunition. Harry, a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals regiment, is expected to practice "fire and manoeuvre" operations in the largest training area available for British vehicles. The training would be of vital use to the prince should he have to go into battle commanding Scimitar tanks in the Helmand Province in Afghanistan. A military source told Britain's Sunday Mirror...

A defiant Prince Harry is flying back to Britain determined to return as soon as possible to front-line duties in Afghanistan. Before he boarded his flight the 23-year-old second Lieutenant in the Household Cavalry was moved from his base, only 500 yards from Taliban enemy lines in the volatile Helmand Province, to a secret and secure location after his presence in Afghanistan was leaked on an American web site. The Prince of Wales and Prince William will meet Prince Harry when he arrives at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Taliban insurgents have threatened to step up attacks on British forces...

He looks more like a film star than a Prince, let alone a serving soldier - but this is Harry enjoying a lighter moment on operation in Afghanistan. Riding a spluttering motorbike, he looks like a boy with a new toy as he careers across the desert, laughing as he goes. "No brakes! No brakes!", the Prince shouts as he digs his heels into the dirt to stop the vehicle, which he had found abandoned moments earlier. Harry, 23, a Cornet - or Second Lieutenant - in the Household Cavalry, has been playing his part in the war on the...

Prince Harry has been warned that serving in Afghanistan made him a prime target for terrorists. Muslim extremists say the young royal is a "legitimate target" after ten weeks secretly fighting the Taliban.

Prince Harry may be returning from the Afghan frontline to a hero's welcome, but he seems far from happy with England, notably life on the media frontline, according to remarks released Friday. The Ministry of Defence said the 23-year-old was being pulled out of Afghanistan "immediately" after a US website breached a media blackout on his presence in the violence-scarred southern province of Helmand. Officials have praised the British media for strictly adhering to the embargo on reporting Harry's deployment, which came after he was unable to go to Iraq last year due to concerns for his security. But Harry,...