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Shaunie speaks on Season: On Her Feelings Towards Royce “We’ve got a lot in store for you. There has been some changes to the cast and some familiar faces. Royce is back. But truthfully I don’t really deal with her this season. After her behavior at the reunion show, I realized she wasn’t someone I wanted to give my time to.” “I think the rest of the girls and I have realized that Royce is the type of woman that constantly has to have some sort of drama going on, so we’ve come to expect it. She’s involved in some drama now, with Jen over the leaking of Royce’s pictures. So I try not to deal with her.” On Meeka Claxton (Wife of Speedy Claxton) Joining the Cast “Meeka was very persistent. She reached out to us regularly, emailing her credentials, pictures, really letting us know why she belonged on the show.”[...]Well she’s already found some drama. I can’t give too much away but let’s just say, she had to learn the hard way.” On the Show Receiving Backlash “It is what it is. I don’t know the answer everyone is looking for. Some woman, somewhere all over the world, is like each one of these women. It may not be you, but its someone you know.The drama, the fights, that’s real. That’s not something I’m responsible for. I wish all TV had a constant message, but it doesn’t. Our show is just another slice of reality.” On Whether Gloria Would Be Returning “Gloria is actually going to be apart of another show I’m doing Source

Ed Schultz has been suspended from MSNBC for calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut" on his syndicated radio show. Schultz opened his primetime MSNBC show on Wednesday apologizing to Ingraham, MSNBC, his family and viewers. "It doesn't matter that I was on radio ad-libbing," Schultz said of his comments the day before. "What I said was terribly vile." Schultz met with MSNBC management earlier in the day on Wednesday, and said he offered to take himself off the air indefinitely and without pay. The network said the suspension would be one week. "I have embarrassed my family," he added, before turning the show over to substitute host Thomas Roberts. "I have embarrassed this company. The only way I can prove my sincerity in all of this is if I never use those words again. You have my word I won't." Schultz said that he tried--unsuccessfully--to reach Ingraham to apologize personally. Network brass released this statement before Schultz went on the air: "MSNBC management met with Ed Schultz this afternoon and accepted his offer to take one week of unpaid leave for the remarks he made yesterday on his radio program. Ed will address these remarks on his show tonight, and immediately following begin his leave. Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated." The "Ed Show" host joined MSNBC in 2009, taking over the 10 p.m. slot after Keith Olbermann--no stranger to network suspensions--left the cable channel earlier this year, shuffling the primetime lineup.

Nickelodeon has picked up 20 episodes of a live-action music comedy pilot entitled, How To Rock Braces and Glasses. Cymphonique Miller will star in the pilot, which centers on a teen girl who becomes the lead singer of a pop/hip hop band, according to Deadline. The show, based on Alloy Entertainment’s eponymous book, will feature original music and is set for a 2012 premiere. “Cymphonique is an extraordinarily talented 14-year-old who has already established herself as an actress, singer and dancer, while remaining an honor student, and How To Rock is the perfect showcase for her comedic and musical skills,” Marjorie Cohn, Nickelodeon’s President, Development and Original Programming told Deadline. Cymphonique’s father, hip-hop entrepreneur Percy Miller, aka Master P, is expected to be involved in the music for How To Rock, which joins Nickelodeon’s growing stable of music-themed shows. Source

Arguably the best decision Baby made, was empowering Lil Wayne with his own label, Young Money, in 2005, which Weezy used to sign stars like Drake and Nicki Minaj over the past couple of years. “Honestly, I gave him the floor,” Baby says of Weezy. “He wanted it. I been with him since he was seven years old, eight years old. I been in his life all of his life, and he was like, “Let me handle, it.” At the time, me as an artist, losing my sister and everything I was going through personally, I was just like, ‘Go ahead, I’ma just support what you gon’ do. You can handle it.’ And I took a step back. Probably was the smarted move I ever made in my life was to let him go ‘head.” XXL’s June 2011 issue will be hitting newsstands nationwide on June 7, 2011. Source

Amber Rose responds to Kanye West diss. Lovebirds Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose took their romance to Amsterdam and Paris this past weekend as they were spotted smooching in Paris Nightclub Sens. Meanwhile, Amber Rose tells King Magazine in her upcoming cover story that she’s chosen to take the high road when it comes to her ex Kanye West. Especially when it comes to his Coachella diss (“I did everything for that blonde dyke, and she’ll do anything if the time’s right). “It’s just unfortunate that he said that in the song ’cause that’s not the lyrics. I can say whatever I want about him. I can write a book or do whatever, but I choose to take the high road. It’s just unfortunate he has to constantly say sh**.” When I was with my [Kanye West], I didn’t have a voice. I was there and I was new to the fame. I didn’t understand everything. Now I get everything. With me and Wiz, we show our love to the world. We don’t try to hide it; we’re not quiet about it. We’re just in love and we’re just happy and we want people to follow in our footsteps and not be afraid to be in a committed relationship.” Source

By KURT VOIGT and ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press Kurt Voigt And Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press – 13 mins ago JOPLIN, Mo. – A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri killed at least 89 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital and leaving a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood. Authorities warned that the death toll could climb Monday as search and rescuers continued their work at sunrise. City manager Mark Rohr announced the number of known dead at a pre-dawn news conference outside the wreckage of a hospital that took a direct hit from Sunday's storm. Rohr said the twister cut a path nearly 6 miles long and more than a half-mile wide through the center of town, adding that tornado sirens gave residents about a 20-minute warning before the tornado touched down on the city's west side. Much of the city's south side was leveled, with churches, schools, businesses and homes reduced to ruins. Fire chief Mitch Randles estimated that 25 to 30 percent of the city was damaged, and said his own home was among the buildings destroyed as the twister swept through this city of about 50,000 people some 160 miles south of Kansas City. "It cut the city in half," Randles said. An unknown number of people were injured in the storm, and officials said patients were scattered to any nearby hospitals that could take them. Authorities planned to conduct a door-to-door search of the damaged area Monday morning, but were expected to move gingerly around downed power lines, jagged debris and a series of gas leaks that caused fires around the city overnight. "We will recover and come back stronger than we are today," Rohr said defiantly of his city's future. Early Monday, Gov. Jay Nixon said fires from gas leaks still burned across the city. "It's a very, very precarious situation," Nixon told CNN. "It's going to be a stark view as people see dawn rise in Joplin, Missouri." Residents said the damage was breathtaking in scope. "You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That's really what it looked like," said Kerry Sachetta, the principal of a flattened Joplin High School. "I couldn't even make out the side of the building. It was total devastation in my view. I just couldn't believe what I saw." The Joplin twister was one of 68 reported tornadoes across seven Midwest states over the weekend, from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. At least one person was killed in Minneapolis. But the devastation in Missouri was the worst of the day, eerily reminiscent the tornadoes that killed more than 300 people across the South last month. Sunday's storm in Joplin hit a hospital packed with patients and a commercial area including a Home Depot construction store, numerous smaller businesses and restaurants and a grocery store. Jasper County emergency management director Keith Stammer said an estimated 2,000 buildings were damaged. Among the worst-hit locations in Joplin was St. John's Regional Medical Center. The staff had just a few moments' notice to hustle patients into hallways before the storm struck the nine-story building, blowing out hundreds of windows and leaving the facility useless. In the parking lot, a helicopter lay crushed on its side, its rotors torn apart and windows smashed. Nearby, a pile of cars lay crumpled into a single mass of twisted metal. Matt Sheffer dodged downed power lines, trees and closed streets to make it to his dental office across from the hospital. Rubble littered a flattened lot where a pharmacy, gas station and some doctor's offices once stood. "My office is totally gone. Probably for two to three blocks, it's just leveled," he said. "The building that my office was in was not flimsy. It was 30 years old and two layers of brick. It was very sturdy and well built." St. John's patients were evacuated to other hospitals in the region, said Cora Scott, a spokeswoman for the medical center's sister hospital in Springfield. A storm chaser who filmed the twister as it ripped through the city told ABC's "Good Morning America" that it was moving faster than his car, which he was driving at 45-50 mph. "The thing that was most amazing about this tornado was the sheer size of the tornado and how fast it was moved through the city ... the sheer size and the speed of this tornado was incredible," Jeff Piotrowksi said. Early Monday morning, floodlights from a temporary triage facility lit what remained of the hospital that once held as many 367 patients. Police officers could be seen combing the surrounding area for bodies. Miranda Lewis, a spokeswoman for St. John's, was at home when the tornado sirens began going off. By early Monday, she still had no details on any deaths or injuries suffered at the hospital in the tornado strike, although she had seen the damaged building. "It's like what you see someplace else, honestly," Lewis said. "That's a terrible way to say it, but you don't recognize what's across the street. "I had seen it on television, but until you're standing right here and see the devastation, you can't believe it." Michael Spencer, a national Red Cross spokesman who also assisted in the aftermath of a tornado that devastated nearby Pierce City in 2003, was also stunned. "I've been to about 75 disasters, and I've never seen anything quite like this before," Spencer said. "You don't typically see metal structures and metal frames torn apart, and that's what you see here." Triage centers and shelters setup around the city quickly filled to capacity. At Memorial Hall, a downtown entertainment venue, nurses and other emergency workers from across the region were treating critically injured patients. At another makeshift unit at a Lowe's home improvement store, wooden planks served as beds. Outside, ambulances and fire trucks waited for calls. During one stretch after midnight Monday, emergency vehicles were scrambling nearly every two minutes. Winds from the storm carried debris up to 60 miles away, with medical records, X-rays, insulation and other items falling to the ground in Greene County, said Larry Woods, assistant director of the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management. Travel through and around Joplin was difficult, with Interstate 44 shut down and streets clogged with emergency vehicles and the wreckage of buildings. Emergency management officials rushed heavy equipment to Joplin to help lift debris and clear the way for search and recovery operations. Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency, and President Barack Obama said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was working with state and local agencies. Jeff Lehr, a reporter for the Joplin Globe, said he was upstairs in his home when the storm hit but was able to make his way to a basement closet. "There was a loud huffing noise, my windows started popping. I had to get downstairs, glass was flying. I opened a closet and pulled myself into it," he told The Associated Press. "Then you could hear everything go. It tore the roof off my house, everybody's house. I came outside and there was nothing left." An aching helplessness settled over residents, many of whom could only wander the wreckage bereft and wondering about the fate of loved ones. Justin Gibson, 30, huddled with three relatives outside the tangled debris field of what remained of a Home Depot. He pointed to a black pickup that had been tossed into the store's ruins and said it belonged to his roommate's brother. "He was last seen here with his two little girls," ages 4 and 5, Gibson said. "We've been trying to get ahold of him since the tornado happened," Gibson said, adding his own house had been leveled. "It's just gone. Everything in that neighborhood is gone. The high school, the churches, the grocery store. I can't get ahold of my ex-wife to see how my kids are," he said, referring to his three children, ranging in age from 4 months to 5 years. "I don't know the extent of this yet," Gibson said, "but I know I'll have friends and family dead." Minneapolis city spokeswoman Sara Dietrich said the death there was confirmed by the Hennepin County medical examiner. She had no other immediate details. Only two of the 29 people injured there were hurt critically. Though the damage covered several blocks in Minneapolis, it appeared few houses were totally demolished. Much of the damage was to roofs, front porches that had been sheared away, or smaller items such as fences and basketball goals. In Wisconsin, the mayor of La Crosse declared a state of emergency Sunday after a powerful storm tore roofs from homes and littered streets and lawns with downed trees and debris. Additional storms were predicted across the southern Plains through Thursday morning. An advisory from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said warm weather Monday could fuel instability in advance of another weather system. A few tornadoes, some strong, could occur — starting in Oklahoma and southern Kansas in the afternoon and in North Texas in the late afternoon. ___ Associated Press writers Jim Salter in Joplin; Heather Hollingsworth, Dana Fields, Chris Clark and Bill Draper in Kansas City, Mo.; Todd Richmond in La Crosse, Wis.; Chris Williams and Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis; and Kelly Kissel in Little Rock contributed to this report.

In an interview published Monday in The Guardian newspaper, a 69-year-old theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says the human brain is a like a computer that will stop working when its components fail. He says: “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” In “Grand Design,” a book published last year, Hawking had declared that it was “not necessary to invoke God … to get the universe going.” Hawking is nearly totally paralyzed by motor neurone disease, diagnosed when he was 21. Source Of course, many are not going to agree with Mr. Hawking including a Katt Williams who put his words together very kindly in response to this ‘bad idea’… If Stephen Hawking does not believe in God … then he’s “just another crippled guy with a bad idea” … so says comedian Katt Williams. Katt was out in L.A. last night when we asked about Kirk Cameron’s pro-afterlife response to Hawking’s suggestion that Heaven does not exist. Williams explained, “Kirk Cameron is brilliant” … adding, “God still runs this earth, Satan’s breath still stinks.” Source

TMZ spoke with Randy’s brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 9:25 AM … and lost control of his vehicle. Earlier this month, Savage celebrated his 1-year anniversary with his new wife Lynn. Savage was 58. Source

Wendy Williams’ husband, Kevin Hunter is being accused of having a long term relationship with a transvestite prostitute known professionally as Monica and/or Mistress Terri according to several sources. Mistress Terri, a known New Jersey transvestite prostitute, has Hunter’s personal cell phone number and even knows the address of the home he shares with Wendy Williams. Kevin was accused of cheating on Wendy a few years ago and sexually harassing a number of her employees on her syndicated radio program, The Wendy Williams Experience.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple’s home before they announced their separation last week. Schwarzenegger and Shriver jointly announced May 9 that they were splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Yet, Shriver moved out of the family’s Brentwood mansion earlier in the year after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the child is his, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. “After leaving the governor’s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago,” Schwarzenegger told the Times in a statement that also was sent to The Associated Press early Tuesday. “I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry. “I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time,” the statement concluded. “While I deserve your attention and criticism, my family does not.” Schwarzenegger’s representatives did not comment further. A spokesman for the former first lady told the Times she had no comment. The Times did not publish the former staffer’s name nor that of her child but said the woman worked for the family for 20 years and retired in January. In an interview Monday before Schwarzenegger issued his statement, the former staffer said another man — her husband at the time — was the child’s father. When the Times later informed the woman of the governor’s statement, she declined to comment further. Source

I stopped stressing. You have to realize at 15, there was a whole entire show I had on my shoulders. It was a very big cast and crew and if you’re sick for a day, people lose money and that’s a problem. Normal 15-year-olds are worried about who’s going to invite them to the prom but I was worried about taxes and stuff. [It wasn't] just over eating because I’ve actually been eating the same. I keep a little bit more smaller portions because I learned that your body has to get rid of that stress some way. Some people break-out, some people lose their hair, some lose weight, some people gain weight, my body just reacted a certain kind of way. Same type of exercising, if any because I don’t like to sweat, it’s the hair.

The freestyle impressario, best remembered for his 2004 hit “Hotel,” was arrested on an open warrrant in Bergen County, New Jersey Saturday. Officers from the Hackensack Police Emergency Response Team and the police department’s juvenile bureau watched Reese’s home Saturday on Reilly Court, Lloyd said. Reese left his house about 1:30 PM. and was followed by police to a local convenience store. That’s when an officer conducted a felony motor vehicle stop and arrested the shocked emcee. Officials in Philly told Hackensack PD “to consider this person armed and dangerous.” The rapper, whose real name is Barry Reese, is a suspect in a murder and two attempted murders in Philadelphia, said Hackensack, New Jersey Police Lt. Timothy Lloyd. “The warrant was for violating probation, but Reese is also a suspect in a murder and two attempted murders in Philadelphia…Philadelphia police knew from a prior investigation that the rapper lived in Hackensack.” The rap star is currently being held in the Bergen County Jail Annex, pending extradition to Pennsylvania. Source

Cali Swag District member M-Bone died of gunshot wounds last night in his hometown of Inglewood, CA. KTLA reports, "Rapper M-Bone of the Cali Swag District has reportedly been shot to death in Inglewood. The 22-year-old, whose real name was Montae Talbert, died Sunday night, TMZ is reporting. It's believed the shooting happened outside a liquor store on La Brea in Inglewood. Inglewood Police Department officials confirm that a young man was shot to death while sitting in a parked car in front of the liquor store Sunday evening. Police say the suspect pulled up in red Mustang and opened fire. The victim was struck twice at close range and pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center. Witnesses say the Mustang drove off and then returned to the scene, almost as if to make sure the victim was dead."

A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday. The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity. The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials. Reports from Abbottabad have said that bin Laden’s compound was cut off from the Internet or other hard-wired communications networks. It is unclear how compound residents would have acquired the pornography. But a video released by the Obama administration confiscated from the compound showed bin Laden watching pictures of himself on a TV screen, indicating that the compound was equipped with video playback equipment. Materials carted away from the compound by the U.S. commandos included digital thumb drives, which U.S. officials believe may have been a principal means by which couriers carried electronic messages to and from the late al Qaeda leader. Three other U.S. officials familiar with evidence gathered during investigations of other Islamic militants said the discovery of pornography is not uncommon in such cases. Source

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Treating HIV right away, before patients are too sick, dramatically lowers their chances of spreading the AIDS virus to a sexual partner, says a major international study that may convince more doctors to offer medication sooner. The nine-nation study offers convincing evidence of what scientists have long believed - that HIV medicines don't just benefit the patient, but may act as a preventive by making those people less infectious. Earlier treatment in the study meant patients were 96 percent less likely to spread the virus to their uninfected partners, according to preliminary results announced Thursday by the National Institutes of Health, which oversaw the research. Those findings were striking enough that the NIH said it was stopping the study four years ahead of schedule to get the word out. When HIV patients should start taking antiviral drugs is an important question. The pills are lifesaving but also expensive - up to $15,000 a year in the U.S. - and carry a range of side effects from diarrhea to liver damage. NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci said the new study promises to change practice worldwide. In developing countries, where the drugs cost a few hundred dollars a year, patients tend to be far sicker before getting medication. Even in the U.S., where therapy starts sooner, doctors don't always treat as early as was done in this study. "It has less to do with a decision about what's good for you from a personal health standpoint than what is the extra added benefit from starting earlier, i.e., transmission, especially if you have a partner who's uninfected," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Condoms remain crucial for protection - the medications don't change that longtime recommendation. All 1,763 couples in the study, where one partner had HIV and the other didn't, were urged to use them. "HIV-positive people cannot assume they are not infectious simply because they are already on treatment medications," warned Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previous research has suggested that HIV patients who use the medications are less likely to spread infection. But the $73 million study announced Thursday is the first to rigorously test that. The couples, most of whom were heterosexual, were randomly divided. Among half, the HIV-infected partner started medication immediately after diagnosis. Among the other half, the infected partner delayed using the drugs until his or her level of CD4 cells - a way to measure the strength of the immune system - dropped below 250 or symptoms appeared. In 28 couples, the uninfected person became infected by their partner. Only one of those infections occurred among the couples where the infected person was treated early, Fauci said. The other 27 cases in which HIV spread involved couples that delayed drug treatment. Importantly, more than half of those infections occurred when the patient's CD4 count remained greater than 350, Fauci noted. That number indicates only moderate immune damage. Most developing countries don't offer treatment until CD4 levels dip lower than that. U.S. guidelines recently were changed to recommend that treatment begin when that immune system number is below 500, although many doctors haven't yet begun following that advice, said Dr. Michael Horberg of the HIV Medicine Association and HIV/AIDS director for Kaiser Permanente. Some experts would treat even sooner. The earlier treatment also helped reduce some complications - such as a form of tuberculosis - in the original patients, but there was no significant difference in deaths between the two groups. The study included couples from Botswana, Brazil, India, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Zimbabwe, as well as a few from the United States. ----- Online: NIH: http://www.niaid.nih.gov (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Associated Press

Video has surfaced of comedian Mike Epps being served court papers during his performance at the Verizon Theater during a recent stop in Dallas. Many people remember the funnyman from such cult classics as Next Friday, The Hangover and Lottery Ticket. In the video, Mike is in the middle of his set, when an unidentified process server serves him with a lawsuit stemming from an altercation inside of a Detroit nightclub in December. Not missing a beat, Mike acknowledges the woman and proceeds to fill the crowd in on the details saying, “White b—h just threw some papers up on the mother f—g stage … b—-h, f—k you.” Mike then admitted to participating in the brawl … saying, “This is from when I whooped that n—-’s a– in Detroit.” He then continued to berate the process server as she made her way towards the exit … saying, “B—-h, I don’t give a f— … suck my d—.” Source

The “Pump it up” guy Joe Budden (that’s his picture on the side) has been making a wee tiny bit of noise on twitter since yesterday. He had some unpleasant things to say about Chris Brown and TheRundown on Twitter! “if i cared about being in any1′s good graces, i’d be working on my Michael Jackson tribute as we speak …..” “fuck this, i’m shopping 4 a bow tie as we speak.” Chris Brown responds: So I’m guessing this person thinks he’s mature by making references to me becuz of his mistakes! #pumppumppumpitup Joe Budden: @chrisbrown i’m a fan my nigga … & my sarcasm was more so geared towards ignorant fans, my bad if i offended u.

After serving an 11-month sentence for violating his parole, rapper T.I. aka Clifford Harris will be released from Arkansas Federal Correctional Institution on September 29th.

(CBS) — Billionaire Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly over the life of being a renter and has purchased his first home in Palo Alto, Calif., for a cool $7 million. According to the Silicon Valley Mercury News, the 26-year-old’s new abode has five bedrooms, a saltwater pool, a music alcove and covers 5,000-plus-square-feet, which offers plenty of space for his new puppy Beast to run around. (Click here to see pictures of the house) While the purchase is a generous upgrade from his previous rented 3,800-square-foot crib, which was in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto, according to Gawker, it is modest in comparison to the lavish estates of other Silicon Valley leaders, like Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison. News of the real estate purchase comes as Facebook is preparing to move its headquarters from Palo Alto to a building in Menlo Park, Calif., previously used by Sun Microsystems. Zuckerberg’s new digs is reportedly just a 10-minute drive from the new campus. Source

Barack Obama was forced to insist last night that he is ‘absolutely certain’ Osama Bin Laden is dead. His extraordinary intervention – a full three days after a U.S. commando shot the Al Qaeda leader in the head – came amid persistent claims of a cover-up as he refused to release photographic proof of the bloodied corpse. Mr Obama cited ‘national security’ as the reason for his decision. It follows fierce debate among the President’s senior advisers, many of whom had pushed for him to release the gruesome final shots of the al-Qaeda leader. It was hoped that releasing the images would also put an end to any wild conspiracy theories that Bin Laden was still alive. But within minutes of the White house announcement, graphic photographs – thought to show Bin Laden’s son, trusted courier and another aide killed in Monday’s raid – were made public today. The photographs, released by Reuters news agency, show the graphic aftermath of the raid on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. They were taken about an hour after the U.S. assault and show three dead men, believed to be trusted courier Arshad Khan, another trusted aide and Bin Laden’s son Khalid, lying in pools of blood without weapons. The refusal by the White House to release the photos will anger members of Obama’s senior advisory team who had pushed for them to be made public.