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Director Oliver Stone is to follow up his 9/11 drama World Trade Center with a film about the subsequent US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The film will be partly based on a CIA officer’s best-selling book Jawbreaker, which also chronicles the hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Stone has aroused controversy with films including Platoon and JFK.

But the film-maker told Variety magazine that the new movie would be “compelling drama, not a polemic”.

Jawbreaker, by CIA officer Gary Berntsen, includes the suggestion that the US bungled a chance to find Bin Laden.

World Trade Center, which tells the story of two police officers trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, received largely favourable reviews in the US.

Stone has called it “the least political film I’ve made”.

The 60-year-old won best director Oscars for Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon, and a best screenplay honour for Midnight Express.

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Socialite Paris Hilton insists she is still single, despite being spotted with former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker in New York City and Amsterdam.

The aspiring pop star, 25, visited the Dutch capital last week, and partied with Barker.

Last month, Barker’s estranged wife Shanna Moakler blasted the rocker for moving on so quickly after their August 2006 split, and Hilton’s publicist appeared to suggest the pair were more than just friends, by saying, “They like each other. Paris really likes him.”

Despite new rumours Hilton got close to tennis ace Andy Roddick at Las Vegas nightspot Tao over the weekend, the hotel heiress claims she’s single.

She tells LuxeLife, “There’s no serious dating anybody at the moment. I’m flying fancy free and enjoying being single and solo.

“It’s a time for me to have a lot of friends and not get tied down with somebody serious.”

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