Prince Harry

[techie]

I think it is shameful that the USA broke Harry's story about his deployment.
Now they are going to have to move him so he and his buddies won't be more endangered. Shame, shame!:mad: The Brits knew all along and knew to keep silent.
Some ally we are!:eek:
techie

[howldaloom]

Agreed! poor harry

[skunkstripe]

I thought it was the Aussies(?) Not that it matters, the media is the same all over the world - anything for a story. :mad:

[sheltie lover]

I agree too, shame really he had only 4 weeks left on a 14 week deployment over there. All the British press new he was there but agreed to a media blackout for the saftey of Harry and the guys in his squad.

[melissa2007]

Sad world we live in sometime, but wouldn't the press have a feild day if something happened to Harry, be the story of 2008.
Some people need to learn to shut there mouth, escpecially when someones safelty is at stake

[blunder paws]

I totally agree Melisa.

[sheplovr]

The Media all over suks. It destroys good stories and makes them all bad. I can do without reporting like that. Harry wanted to serve and I think he will sneak back in and work, he liked it.!!! Such a shame....

[vixen]

Skunk-the reports here is that it was a US wed site that leaked the story. I can't repeat what I said about iot when I heard. somthine like "******** americans" inset what ever words you like where the stars are.

but then again it would'nt matter who leaked it I would have sworn at them.

poor kid, he he been through so much, he could do with having some sort of normal life even if it was a only a few weeks.

[zoran]

Major bad break for the poor kid. Wish those poor kids would be treated as ordinairy people, that's what they keep asking for.

[skunkstripe]

Well this is what I saw
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/28/wdrudge328.xml
it was an Aussie mag the published it, then almost two months later put on that US website.
But I stick by my opinion that some people in the press will stoop very very low to get a story. This should not have been leaked, period. Next thing ther'll be paparazzi trying to get to the front so they can get a piccie of him. :mad:

[Jake2006]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3454535.ece

"One Australian news magazine, New Idea, reported Harry's deployment a month ago, but it was not until it was carried yesterday on the Drudge Report, a major American website, that the news embargo was lifted.

The leak means the full details of Prince Harry’s mission in Helmand province can now be revealed.

— He was involved in a frontline fire-fight with the Taleban fighting alongside Gurkha troops just 500 metres from enemy positions.

— He expressed his fear that he could be a “bullet magnet” for the enemy and that extremists would be “trying to slot me” on his return to England. "



He did look rather peeved when he returned home you could see him muttering under his breath to his brother William. I do think that it was the right decision to bring him home though as his head would have been a trophy for terrorists - not to mention to safety of his comrades.

That's my opinion

[vixen]

************ Aussie's

There gonna be some very blue air in the palace tinight

[cassiesmom]

It is sad that news was leaked, puts Harry and his unit at risk.

[lynnie]

its a real shame that harry has had to come home, i can understand why it was kept secret for his safty and the safty of his unit. But its something he really wanted to do, Prince Andrew served in the faulklands and he came home a hero, Whats the difference? The taleban wouldnt have known he was any different to any other of his comrades if the press had kept there mouths shut.

[Jake2006]

I think the difference is that the andrew was in the RAF and so fighting from 'aloft' so to speak - whereas Harry is on the front line in what could be described as hand-to-hand combat. The Argentine military didn't have any terrorist factions - everyone knew who their enemy was.
Terrorists will infiltrate and work in shadows - they don't fight fairly - they are fanatics and fundamentalists. I think Harry was/is in a much more precarious position - but that's just my opinion - what do others think?