{"id":51691,"date":"2023-01-07T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jan\/06\/army-veterans-criticise-prince-harry-claim-killed-25-taliban-afghanistan"},"modified":"2023-01-07T01:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:38:52","slug":"army-veterans-criticise-prince-harrys-claim-he-killed-25-taliban-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51691","title":{"rendered":"Army veterans criticise Prince Harry\u2019s claim he killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Col Tim Collins says \u2018we don\u2019t do notches on rifle butt\u2019 and kill-count talk could increase Harry\u2019s personal security risk<\/p>\n<p>High-profile British veterans have criticised the Duke of Sussex\u2019s claim he had killed 25 Taliban soldiers while serving with the British army in Afghanistan and warned the high-profile admission could increase the risk to his personal security.<\/p>\n<p>The retired army veteran Col Tim Collins, best known for delivering a rousing speech before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, said the prince\u2019s kill-count talk was crass and \u201cwe don\u2019t do notches on the rifle butt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jan\/06\/army-veterans-criticise-prince-harry-claim-killed-25-taliban-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col Tim Collins says \u2018we don\u2019t do notches on rifle butt\u2019 and kill-count talk could increase Harry\u2019s personal security riskHigh-profile British veterans have criticised the Duke of Sussex\u2019s claim he had killed 25 Taliban soldiers while serving with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,511,71,938,1611,1987,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-books","category-culture","category-military","category-monarchy","category-prince-harry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691\/revisions\/51692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}