Prince Harry has been withdrawn from the front lines due to concerns that Taliban forces would step up their attacks on his unit in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, two Al Qaeda-affiliated websites are calling on jihadists to “slaughter” young Harry.
Concerns about Harry’s safety were deepened when firebrand preacher Anjem Choudhary, of the extremist Al Muhajiroun group, accused him of endorsing an “illegal war”.  He said: “I think it is inevitable that anyone who engages in these activities is going to draw attention to themselves. He will be seen as part of the enemy and so he is a target.
Too bad we can’t make Mr. Choudhary a target.ÂÂ
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/1 @ 12:58 am #
I would think it might be smart to leave him there as bait. from what I hear, the AQ “troops” are easy to kill out in the open.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 3/1 @ 1:01 am #
Why can’t we?
Comment by someonewholikeforrealnevercommentshere on 3/1 @ 1:04 am #
i just think if someone has to be a martyr to wake up that stupid little island, he is one of the more expendable chaps
Comment by CraigC on 3/1 @ 1:04 am #
I think you know the answer to that, RTO.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 1:23 am #
Prince Charles hasn’t exactly been part of the solution either I don’t think.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 1:39 am #
Two months of service, this one, a lifetime of pie.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 3/1 @ 2:56 am #
Really, no. There are many means of targeting. And many things that can be delivered on target.
Comment by Sean M. on 3/1 @ 3:20 am #
From the wise Mr. Choudhary (PBUH):
So, I guess he’s not in favor of decapitating any people with giant Papier-mache heads, huh? Fancy that.
Next thing you know, I’m sure he’ll be inviting these folks over for a nice Halal meal. Yeah.
Comment by bour3 on 3/1 @ 4:14 am #
Harry’s the best! Now there’s a royal I wouldn’t mind having over for a cupper, always smiling no matter wot, and that whole thing about the Nazi uniform was stretched waaay out of proportion, it was all hallows eve, after all. I simply refuse to understand the enmity and ridicule by his lessers who would piss themselves put in the same situation in which he revels, and for a ginger! Now there’s a camp out you could easily refuse. Plus the randy lad just now remarked he doesn’t much care for England. Ha! Imagine.
I’d rather shoot Drudge. Not kill, mind you, just something that would really hurt.
Comment by Sean M. on 3/1 @ 5:03 am #
So, to update the talking points, we’re now supposed to mock someone from the most-upper-part-of-the-upper class who chose to volunteer to fight.
Where the proles, who can’t secure any other jobs have to be duped into volunteering…uh? What, now?
But, we’re supposed to mock the Prince…why?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 5:09 am #
Oh bosh. Why not?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/1 @ 7:46 am #
“Too bad we can’t make Mr. Choudhary a target.”
Maybe we could send him an exploding candygr…goat-gram?
Comment by B Moe on 3/1 @ 8:02 am #
I am with RTO, I think we need to ratchet it up a notch or two.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/1 @ 8:10 am #
Harry seems a likable fellow; I wish him the best. But, as Americans, we are privileged (one might say obliged) to mock him, or more precisely to mock his fanboys. Mark Twain:
Same for Angelina Jolie et al., of course.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/1 @ 9:13 am #
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’
Now if you’ll excuse me,
I’m being evacuated;
Don’t forget to write, ‘kay?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/1 @ 9:23 am #
Yeah, it does add a little downer at the end, TSI. But he does have to follow orders, and at least he did insist on going and he fought with his unit.
Pity the brass considered his presence more of a danger than an opportunity to set up a killing zone around him.
Comment by Major John on 3/1 @ 10:21 am #
Sanity Inspector,
I have not laughed a great deal since coming to Iraq. I just did. Thanks for that inspired little gem of a comment.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/1 @ 3:58 pm #
Anything for our heroes, Major John, anything!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/1 @ 4:37 pm #
BTW – do the British still use ‘leftenant’?
That is a serious question.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/1 @ 4:46 pm #
I believe so.
Comment by CelticDragon on 3/1 @ 7:06 pm #
I think, CraigC, that every douchenozzle Imam, Mullah, Ayatollah, and whatever other name they call themselves, that opens his reeking mouth and declares some fatwa against anyone should be targeted, and maybe then they’ll get the message, play nice with others, or they won’t play nice with you…
Comment by SDN on 3/1 @ 10:41 pm #
Although, since Harry’s in the Household Cavalry, his actual rank is Cornet.
Comment by Barbara Diamond on 3/4 @ 1:40 pm #
Boys and Girls–
How many times do we need to go over this.
The Prince Dude was never in Afghanistan..
Capeesh?