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Ancient 'Cyclops' wall collapsesExperts study rubble in central Italian town of Amelia (ANSA) - Amelia, January 18 - Part of a massive wall started in around 600 BC around the central Italian town of Amelia collapsed on Wednesday morning for reasons still unclear . The so-called Polygonal walls around Amelia are famous not only for their age but also their size. Built out of huge polygonal stones, they are 8-10 metres high and about 3.5 metres thick . The 20-metre section of wall which collapsed was undergoing restoration work in recent weeks although activity had been suspended for a few...

You might have the impression that Ivy League "neoconservatives" wearing pinstripe suits inside the wonky think tanks in Washington, D.C., are currently plotting the overthrow of the mullahs running Iran. They and their hawkish Pentagon pals have checked the box next to Iraq on their to-do list (now that elections have happened), and are strategizing the best way to take down the tyranny in Iran. (Then we'll move on to Syria, and get ready for the draft, folks, we're fixing the world!) But that image couldn't be further from the truth. Some of those Beltway types are cheering from the...

Expose the subversive activities of Islamist extremists around the world or in the United States and speedy CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) pops up with accusations of Islamophobia. Before Abdurahman Alamoudi, a U.S. citizen and prominent leader of Washington's Muslim community confessed to a Libyan-funded assassination plot, CAIR denounced his detractors as Muslim bashers. CAIR suddenly fell silent when Alamoudi plea-bargained with the U.S. for a lighter sentence, in the range of a quarter-century, instead of life for his part in a Gadhafi plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah. It would behoove CAIR to care more about an...