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Daily Mirror
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Douglas Patient & Ryan Fahey

Taliban accuses Prince Harry of war crimes after he admits killing 25 in Afghanistan

A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were "not chess pieces, they were humans".

In the highly-anticipated memoir, Harry wrote of blasting away enemy insurgents during six combat missions.

He recalled the "taking of human lives" as he confessed to not thinking of those he killed "as people" but as "chess pieces" to be taken off the board while serving on the Helman frontlines as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner.

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