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He's third in line to the throne. (Queen - 1st Charles, 2nd William, 3rd Harry).
Dosen't matter if he's 1st or 12th, it still makes him a trophy target.
They are bringing him home because all the press are going over there, and it'll be a matter of time before one of them gets kidnapped again and held hostage.
Journalists are convenient as hostage material, a Prince would be a God send. I can hear it now, we don't negotiate with terrorists. Yeah, right.
The army have enough problems fighting in a foriegn land, against skilled local fighters trained in guerilla (sorry about the spelling) warfare. The last thing they need is scores of media from all over the world trying to get themselves shot. So if it was a choice between 100's of media swarming the country and getting in the way, or letting Harry go back to England, their is only one sensible choice.
I never said the media are not scum when it comes to matter likes this, but it was only a matter of time before he was recognized anyways. In choosing to proove his manhood abroad, he chose to endanger all around him.
Before all the media interest, he was doing an excellent job.
Excellent within the limits of being a Prince at war allows.
And the reasoning why the BBC were following him round is simple. Because he couldn't go to iraq due to media attention the army struck a 'deal'. The basics were, 1) Media black out on where harry is and what he is doing till Mid to late April. 2) If that happened the BBC to cover his day to day activities.
Media black out, the term is kinda a joke. It boils down to the army hoping the locals are too thick to know he's a Prince and the BBC getting a massive scoop if they kept their mouths shut. Balencing the lives of other soldiers on a perverse razors edge.
Just because he is a prince is not a reason why he cannot serve in the military.
It is the perfect reason why he should not serve in active hostile combat zones.
If the info wasn't leaked and the Afgans learned who he was anyways, then they made him their priority target resulting in a capture attempt, which say fails, the Prince escapes but x number of commonal garden troops are killed in the attempt, they would have died for no other reason than a Prince wanted his cake and eat it.
I'm sorry Mrs Jones, your son was blown apart when the Afgans tried a sneek offensive to kidnap a Prince of England. Your son just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the wrong company. Here, have a tissue and don't feel to bad, you arent the only parents i'm seeing today.