Prince Harry Withdraws From Afghanistan After International Media Has Leaked The Story

Prince Harry, 23, son of Prince Charles and deceased Princess Diana has been secretly deployed as front lines combat soldier in Afghanistan for 2-1/2 months. However, the international media and website of German, U.S and Australian has leaked his presence in Afghanistan. Thus, the officials said Prince Harry has to be withdrawn from the deployment after the leak as fearing that Prince would become a target for Taliban militans or other fatal threats.


Initially the plan of 4-6 months deployment was due to agreement from British and selected members of international media to not report his presence until Prince Harry had returned.

From yahoo mails,

The head of the army, General Richard Dannatt, issued a statement expressing his disappointment that the press embargo -- a rare agreement in Britain's usually free-for-all media environment -- had been broken by foreign media Web sites.

"In deciding to deploy him to Afghanistan, it was my judgment that with an understanding with the media not to broadcast his whereabouts, the risk in doing (so) was manageable. Now that the story is in the public domain, the chief of staff and I will take advice from the operational commanders about whether his deployment can continue. I now appeal to the media to restrain from attempting to report Prince Harry's every move and return to our understanding.

Dannatt, whose decision it was to cancel Harry's deployment to Iraq, said he had been a model soldier.

"His conduct on operations in Afghanistan has been exemplary," he said. "He has been fully involved in operations and has run the same risks as everyone else."

This video is showing Prince Harry spent his free time playing football and even posing for pictures while he was not on patrol.