Prince Harry Back From The Afghan Front
Young Royal Returns From War Zone, Described As Most "Normal" Life He's Known
LONDON, Mar. 1, 2008

Prince Pulled From Afghanistan
Serving as a soldier in Afghanistan, Britain's Prince Harry was doing what he's always wanted. But now that his deployment there has been discovered, he is being pulled out. Mark Phillips reports. | Share/Embed
(CBS) If Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan was a big secret, his return couldn't be more public.
He was a normal soldier, it was said, when he was in Afghanistan. But he's a royal prince with a significantly changed reputation as he comes home, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips in London.
An airbase west of London is the main transit point for British troops moving in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq, but few returns draw this kind of welcome: Prince Harry's father, Prince Charles, and his brother, Prince William, were two unusual members of the welcoming committee.
Harry had described his experience in Afghanistan as the most "normal" life he's ever likely to be allowed to live, but as he started his trip home, Prince Harry's normalcy was beginning to drop away.
A Prince may put his own bags through the X-ray screener - but somebody is there to help him at the other end.
Harry and the British military had hoped his tour of duty might extend into April. But when news of it broke and his cover was blown, the game was up - as he knew it would be.
He told an interviewer, "Once this film comes out, there will probably be every single person who supports them will be trying to slot me, but now that you come to think about it, it is quite worrying."
And worrying as well for the families of those troops who were with him. Harry's nickname is "Bullet Magnet," and once it was known where he was, those other troops became potential targets, too.
"While no one knew he was there, it wasn't a problem," said Steve Robert, stepfather of a British soldier. "I think once it became public knowledge, common knowledge, the fact that he's come home, we are quite relieved."

(Cpl Rich Denton/MoD Crown/PA, AP)
Harry had been disappointed when he wasn't allowed to go to Iraq. This secret tour to Afghanistan seems to have made up for it.
"I guess I hope the public will think, you know, 'Good on him.' Hopefully they won't think too much on it and what will people think in sending him out there. At the end of the day, you know, I am just a human being, I am a normal person like these guys are."

(Press Association via AP Images)
He's says he's the same guy he was when he left, but the next time he's spotted with a drink, people may think he's entitled.
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Posted by endofempire
To go to another country to kill and die because of known lies by your leader is not my idea of "bollocks" as you call them, that is being, as we Americans say, a sucker.
A better question is why should we go and fight? The Taliban were the leaders of their own country, they never attacked us. "Al Qaeda" is a network of CIA assets, trained assassins and arms smugglers sent by the CIA to aid the opposition to Russia during the Afghan Russian war, and they still take orders from the CIA.
The only reason we are killing those people now is because Bush wanted his oil pipeline, so he had to get rid of the local government and install his puppet Karzai.
If you think that Bush and Blair are really fighting terrorists, then you go help them. I know they both lied to start this, I know the Taliban are no threat to me or mine, and see no reason to assist in England''s and America''s genocide.
You preach about "fighting Al Qaeda", yet you ignore the fact that Al Qaeda is a CIA asset. You spew about "Al Qaeda" but you are quite silent when it comes to fighting their real bosses...
Some "hero", taking part in the illegal invasion and occupation of a country, killing innocent people whose only crime is resisting that occupation.
This is nothing more than an obscene version of the fox hunt, Harry went and got some blood on his ear, the sickest part is that it is not fox blood, which is deranged enough, but exponentially worse, it is human blood.