The new Freedom Tower reached 100 floors on April 2 and once the 101st floor is completed it will stand at 1254 feet, four feet taller than the Empire State Building.

This picture of the famous New York skyline shows how the Freedom Tower is about to take its historic place as the city's new giant.

Symbolism:

Project 2012 - 5 - Expanding SymbolisM by MarinaOfLight

Posted: 8:39:42 AM  

"I don't want to be sent to America by plane -sometimes they fly into tall buildings."

Posted: 8:36:41 AM  

Gaddafi torture victim tells Tony Blair and Jack Straw to admit kidnap truth

Mr Belhadj and his wife were sent to Libya in 2004 shortly before Mr Blair signed his 'deal in the desert' with Colonel Gaddafi.

Documents found in Tripoli after the fall of the dictator show that former MI6 officer Sir Mark Allen boasted to Gaddafi's intelligence chief Musa Kusa that 'the intelligence was British' which led to the CIA apprehending Mr Belhadj.

Posted: 8:33:46 AM