Prince Harry ‘keen to return to war’

PRINCE HARRY, home from his abandoned military mission to Afghanistan, said he hopes to return to combat zones as soon as possible.

The prince yesterday spent his first full day back in Britain after his tour of duty amid claims that coverage of his mission was propaganda for a failed military strategy.

The 23-year-old’s time fighting the Taliban in the volatile Helmand province in southern Afghanistan has dominated the British media since a prominent US website blew his cover last Thursday, forcing military brass to pull him out.

General Sir Mike Jackson, the predecessor of the head of the British Army General Sir Richard Dannatt, told BBC television Sunday the coverage was “not unhelpful” for recruitment, saying Prince Harry had summed up the sense of comradeship among serving soldiers.