Rihanna Tweets Topless Photos in Bed Morning After Halloween

    Rihanna Tweets Hot Morning After Pics!  On Halloween night, Rihanna played hostess for a costume bash at Graystone supper club in West Hollywood — with on-again, off-again beau Chris Brown among the guests. By Thursday morning, the “Diamonds” singer, 24, was ready to chill out at home in bed — with nothing on, naturally.   “Hello November”  […]

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Afghan Taliban Vows To Kidnap Or Assassinate British Royal; Prince Harry

  The Afghan Taliban said on Monday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or assassinate Britain’s Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.   Taliban Issues A Threat Queen Elizabeth’s grandson is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based out of Camp Bastion in volatile […]

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Lifting The Veil On Taliban Sex Slavery

Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza

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Avenging bin Laden: Taliban Unleash Spring Offensive in Afghanistan

Taliban fighters carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the embattled southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday — a campaign that Afghan President Hamid Karzai characterized as “revenge” for the death of Osama bin Laden. Insurgents first assaulted the provincial governor’s palace with rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire and then launched a series of strikes across the city on the headquarters of the Afghan National Police and the Transportation Police, on Police Sub-station One as well as various other Afghan National Security Force and International Security and Assistance Force buildings in both Kandahar city and in the Arghandab River Valley, ISAF reported.

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The New Tehran-Riyadh Rivalry

Afghanistan has been something of a forgotten war in recent months because of the world’s preoccupation with Libya and Egypt and the wave of antigovernment protests spreading throughout the Middle East. That will soon change, now that the Obama Administration is stepping up talks with the Taliban in an effort to come up with some peaceable endgame to the half-trillion-dollar war

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