Spokesman says Taliban are 'doing everything they can' to kill or capture prince, who is serving on frontline in Afghanistan

The Afghan Taliban have said they are doing everything in their power to kidnap or assassinate Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.



The prince is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based out of Camp Bastion in volatile Helmand province, where he will be on the frontline in the Nato-led war against Taliban insurgents.



"We are using all our strength to get rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping," the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.



"We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him," Mujahid added, declining to go into detail on what he dubbed the "Harry operations".



The 27-year-old prince, who is third in line to the throne, took up his new role two weeks after he was photographed frolicking naked in Las Vegas.



Known in the military as Captain Wales, he first served in Afghanistan in 2008 as an on-ground air controller, but his tour was cut short when a news blackout, designed to protect him while on the frontline, collapsed.



The Ministry of Defence has said the threat to Prince Harry's life in Afghanistan is less severe in helicopters.







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