According to the New York Times, U.S. officials say that American forces launched a targeted assault and killed the Al Qaeda leader who has eluded capture ever since the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon ten years ago.

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The Freedom Tower in New York City, currently being built to replace the the twin towers that were leveled during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, will be the third tallest skyscraper at 1, 776 feet tall once completed in 2013.

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It beat the other finalist team, led by New York-based architects Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz, which proposed two decorative steel towers in memory of the twin towers destroyed in the 11 September 2001 hijacked plane attacks.

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