Al-Quaeda's latest recruits!

The US military has recovered a video reported to be an Al Quaeda recruiting tool. It features children,probably pre-teen or barely into their teens with Kalashnikovs in mock hold-up scenes.



According to ABC news,at one point in the video, three recruits stand in front of a black flag reciting a verse from the Koran, roughly translated to "fight them and they will be tortured upon your hands and you will be victorious."

The terrorist organisation has now started recruiting even women suicide bombers with Down's syndrome. In a recent incident, two such women were fooled into wearing explosive vests which were then detonated remotely by mobile phones as the women mingled with crowds.Pathetic!

Finally! The freedom tower is on a roll !

After spending months wrangling for control of buildings and about budgetary allocations at ground zero, politicians and a private developer gathered today as excavation trucks rolled out to mark the beginning of construction of the Freedom Tower, the symbolic skyscraper designed to replace the destroyed World Trade Center buildings .Construction crews reported to the site in the morning with large excavating trucks.
Though politicians broke ground on the tower for the first time on July 4, 2004,there has been considerable delay in the start of the construction due to repeated redesigning of the building and its dynamics to better accomodate security measures at street level. Rising from its square base - which will be constructed of impermeable concrete and steel - the redesigned Freedom Tower will taper into eight tall isosceles triangles, forming a perfect octagon at its center. It is scheduled to open in 2011. Hopefully so!