Prince Harry’s ‘dangerous lie’ remark on claims he ‘boasted’ killing 25 Taliban fighters

Prince Harry on a US TV live show on Wednesday said the “most dangerous lie” about his memoir “Spare” is that he boasted about killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

In the latest episode of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, Prince Harry said, “Without doubt, the most dangerous lie they have told is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan”.

“If I heard anybody else boasting about that kind of thing, I would be angry. But it’s a lie. And hopefully, now the book is out, people would be able to see the context,” he added.

Adding that his words are not dangerous, but the spin of his words is “very dangerous”, he said there’s a whole section dedicated to the Afghanistan incident, but some people just ripped it away and took a single line from it, out of context, and claimed that he boasted about it.

Taking further about why he decided to share the whole incident of killing Taliban fighters, he said, “After working with veterans for almost two decades all around the world, I think the most important thing is to be honest and give space to others to be able to share their experiences without shame.”

Revealing his “goal” behind sharing the details of that particular incident, he said the purpose was to “reduce the number of suicides”.

The Duke of Sussex’s comments came after his revelation about the killings were criticised by many, including the Taliban which now rules Afghanistan.

Anas Haqqani, a senior leader of the Taliban, had said the people Prince Harry claimed he killed in Afghanistan were “not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return”.

Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare” hit the bookstands on Tuesday and became the UK’s fastest-selling non-fiction book ever, said the Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House.