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The invasion was launched just four weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks which killed almost 3,000 people

PRINCE Charles tried to pause the American invasion of Afghanistan because of Ramadan, according to sensational new claims.

The Prince is said to have made the plea to the US ambassador to London four weeks into the offensive launched in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

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The envoyis said to have responded Sir, are you really serious? after Charles made the intervention, seemingly without the knowledge of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The claims are made in a new biography of Charles by historian Sally Bedell Smithbeing serialised in the Daily Mail.

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She says Charles placed an urgent call to William Farish, Washingtons ambassador to London, asking if he would pass on the request to then-President George W. Bush.

When the ambassador told him it would be difficult to halt an ongoing invasion, he allegedly protested: But Americans can do anything!

Colonel Richard Kemp, who subsequently commanded British forces in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying the alleged request was absurd and shows a surprising lack of judgement.

The US and the UK launched Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7 2001, just four weeks after al-Qaedas devastating attacks which killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000.

Terrorists hijacked four planes, flying two into the twin towers of New Yorks famous World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon in Virginia.

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A fourth plane was being steered towards Washington DC but crashed in a field after passengers tried to overcome the terrorists.

Ramadan the holy month in which Muslims endure a period of daily fasting began on November 16 2001.

Charless youngest son Prince Harry went on to serve in the war, spending two stints fighting on the frontline against the Taliban in 2008 and 2013.

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The book by Bedell Smith who has also written biographies of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, the Clintons and the Kennedys also claims Charles tried to influence Margaret Thatcher back in 1985.

It claims that the pair clashed in 1985 over the princes fears that Tory policies would mean he would inherit the throne of a divided Britain.

The book says the Prime Minister was so incensed she called Buckingham Palace to complain, telling him: I run this country, not you, sir.

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