Jackie Chan was nowhere to be found, but finally, we have found a fully sorted-out timeline of last night's game-ending brawl between the Pistons, the Pacers and the fans at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

The brawl began with 45.9 ticks on the clock as Indiana's Ron Artest blatantly fouled Detroit's Ben Wallace hard as Wallace was going up for a layup. Indiana was ahead 97-82. Or in other words, there was no way Detroit could even consider winning.

The melee escalated from there.

• Wallace wheels around and delivers a hard, two-handed shove to Artest's chin, which leads to pushing and shoving with several players near midcourt.
• Artest lies on the scorer's table with his hands behind his head, looking relaxed. Wallace tries to get at Artest, but is held back by teammates and coaches.
• As players shout at each other, Wallace throws a wristband toward Artest, who stands up briefly before lying back down on the scorer's table.
• An unidentified fan near midcourt hits Artest in the face with a cup filled with ice and a beverage.
• Artest storms into the stands and attacks a fan, who he thinks hurled the cup at him.
• Indiana's Stephen Jackson joins his teammate in the seats and starts throwing punches.
• David Harrison, Eddie Gill and Fred Jones of the Pacers, Detroit's Rasheed Wallace and former Piston Rick Mahorn try to break up the fight between Pacers and fans, who land their share of punches.
• Back on the court near Indiana's bench, Artest punches a fan wearing a Pistons jersey who walked toward him. After another fan tries to tackle Artest and as he tries to stand up, Jermaine O'Neal runs toward him and lands a vicious right hand on his face.
• Pacers players and coaches leave the floor and are showered with beer, popcorn and assorted debris, including a folding chair.
• Indiana's Jamaal Tinsley tries to go back on the court, holding a metal dust pan over his head before he is turned back to the locker room.

Players from both teams left the arena without commenting to the press, but both coaches gave their two cents about the ugly incident, both calling it "unbelievable."

UPDATE: Here's a video of the brawl, courtesy of my blog-brother Avery Toley.

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That is the new Jetta?

Just damn. It's just plain ugly.

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1 Cars seem to go through design phases together. This phase seems to be the loaf-of-bread-on-a-skateboard phase, Prius and Ford Focus are other examples. Not that 1950s tail fins or the 1990s wedge cars that all looked like they were going downhill were things of beauty even in their day. Mostly, you (and me!) are just getting too old to appreciate the modern stuff. I'll bet the music is too loud, too.

Posted by: Fred Boness at November 19, 2004 07:55 PM (Ophlv)

2 Don't shoot the designer, shoot the Suits. From personal experience I can tell you that the marketing/exec muckety-mucks with absolutely no design sense nor training tell the designers what to do. Further, committee design usually results in a camel (a horse designed by committee). I've often suggested that designers show up at staff meetings with new strategy and marketing plans, designers being arguably better at sensing trends, and see how that goes over. When pigs fly. In the meantime place the blame where it belongs.

Posted by: Avik at November 20, 2004 05:41 AM (Ai1rC)

3 It looks like one of those Toyota Echos...I remember some fast-food burger place had a pretty funy commercial where a guy was driving a car named the Speck (McDoodle's, I think). That's what this thing looks like. I've often wondered if a company couldn't make a killing these days by doing what the VW folks did for years...pick a design and stick with it for years--decades, even. The Beetle had slight changes over the years, but parts were easy to find and they weren't a pain in the ass to work on. Doing that, I'd think they'd save zillions in rettoling costs. I read somewhere that it costs upwards of $20 million just to design a single cup holder for one of today's models. Amazing.

Posted by: skh at November 20, 2004 07:33 AM (0xwoN)

4 freakin ugly

Posted by: Digger at November 20, 2004 05:16 PM (FYEx6)

5 I don't like foreign cars, but back in the day, the Jetta was hot! Ugh...

Posted by: Steven J. Kelso Sr. at November 24, 2004 07:24 PM (U4SDZ)

6 I have a 2004 1.8 Turbo that is a great car. The new Jetta looks like a freakin Honda. I don't like the Passat's either. I may be out of the VW business. I've owned 4, 2 Jettas a Passat and an old Fox. All were excelent cars with the distinctive German look and feel. This new car is simply crap.

Posted by: dman1310 at March 28, 2005 11:23 AM (03+cg)

7 i have to agree with everyone the new jetta looks so darn ugly i hated the boxie style before the 99-04 years then started loving the jetta when they changed the look but now the new one just shot them in the foot i ask everyone who wants a jetta please wait BOY COTT THE NEW JETTA show how really mad we are with vw then they will change their mind and make something better next time

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Project 21 released a press release this afternoon on the constant and continuous bashing of Dr. Rice -- I'm quoted in the piece.

Black Activists Condemn Anti-Rice Hate Speech

Civil rights Leaders Criticized for Ignoring Attacks on Conservative Minorities

For Release: November 19, 2004

Contact: David Almasi at 202/371-1400 x106 or Project21@nationalcenter.org

President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state as resulted in harsh liberal criticism that members of the black leadership network Project 21 consider racist.

Along with their condemnations of offensive commentators and cartoonists, Project 21 members also are critical of self-professed civil rights leaders who are remaining silent on current and previous racial attacks on black Bush Administration officials.

Over the past few months, and peaking this week with her appointment, cartoonists have been using Dr. Rice's race as a point of ridicule. Demeaning political cartoons by Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger accentuate Dr. Rice's black features and feature her speaking in rural southern dialect. Garry Trudeau called her "Brown Sugar" in his "Doonesbury" comic strip. Earlier this year, cartoonist Ted Rall questioned Dr. Rice's race in a comic suggesting she was President Bush's "house nigga" and needed "racial re-education." Universal Press Syndicate distributes Oliphant, Trudeau and Rall. The New York Times distributes Danziger.

On November 17, radio host John "Sly" Sylvester called Dr. Rice "Aunt Jemima" and secretary of state Colin Powell "Uncle Tom" on his WTDY (Madison, Wisconsin) radio show. Sylvester, who also is the station's program director, is refusing to apologize, but has said, "I will apologize to Aunt Jemima." The station's owner, the Mid-West Broadcast Group, is declining to discipline him.

In late October, a conservative host at WISN in nearby Milwaukee was suspended for a week for calling an illegal Mexican immigrant a "wetback."

While some local leaders have condemned Sylvester's comments, the Madison chapter of the NAACP has so far declined to make a statement. Project 21 asked the NAACP's national leadership to condemn Rall's racist cartoon in July, but no action was taken. Jesse Jackson and the National Association of Black Journalists were also contacted at the time. They took no action.

"To hear the leftists tell it, conservative blacks have become the new 'trash class' of American society," said Project 21 member Michael King. "And with the continued cricket-filled silence from the professional civil rights crowd, the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons give tacit permission and acceptance of such language and tactics."

King's comments are echoed by Project 21 member Mychal Massie: "The recent racist attacks and mimicry of Condoleezza Rice are infuriating and despicable. Even more insufferable is the deafening silence of the elite liberals. I believe their silence is proof positive of their personal racist attitudes. Obviously condemning racist attacks against a man and woman who are conservative and black is not a worthy undertaking for them."

Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, has been a leading voice in the black community since 1992. For more information, contact David Almasi at (202) 371-1400 x106, e-mail Project21@nationalcenter.org or visit Project 21's website at http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html.

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And it ain't hot either!

Howard Stern (Mike spits on sidewalk) is giving away free Sirius satellite radio systems with a committment to a one year contract (of course you've gotta pay to get the thing installed, too). It comes out to a $150 value, overall.

Not that everyone is a Stern fanatic (actually, I can't stand the guy), but Sirius has all sorts of programming including each and every NFL play-by-play broadcast in the League.

Here's what ya gotta do:

• Go to this site.
• Click the "Redeem Your Certificate" button.
• If it's not already filled in, enter "263" in the "promo code" box.
• Click "Add To Cart" next to the Audiovox radio (that's the only model available for the promotion)
• Enter your e-mail address as the "Certificate Number" on the next screen
• Select your accessories
• Purchase your subscription

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John Sylvester, who is known on the air as "Sly," continued an on-the-air tirade against Secretary of State-designee Condoleezza Rice on WTDY-AM Madison, WI yesterday. Sylvester referred to Rice as "Aunt Jemima," and compounded his verbal assault by calling departing Secretary of State Colin Powell "Uncle Tom."

Sylvester claims that his black listeners "gave him permission" to use those disparaging terms about the duo, whom he insists are "letting themselves be used" by conservatives -- as if they don't have an original thought capable of being conserative.

Sly, the on-air name for John Sylvester, told WTDY-AM (1670) morning show listeners that Rice, who is black, bought her way into the White House with obedience to President Bush.

"I'm not apologizing for what I said," Sylvester said Thursday in an interview. "I stand by it.

"I was aiming that directly at a black person that is letting himself (and herself) be used by an administration that has been extremely hostile to minorities," he said.

"Being subservient and being a black role model are two different things. I think (Rice) has not only been bad for the country and for national security, but I think she's been a bad black role model.

"I don't think being subservient to white people and not blowing the whistle on their misdoings is a good role model at all."

Political cartoonists continue to lampoon Rice in bigoted cartoons across the nation, yet if any conservative-leaning commentator, writer, columnist, cartoonist, talk show host or anyone else for that matter, even strayed near that path, he/she'd be run out of the nation on a rail. And that goes the same for conservative blacks as well as whites, especially as noted by the amount of hate mail I've entertained behind my past criticisms of Jesse Jackson in print, online and in the broadcast media.

The double-standard is alive and well in black America, and I'm sorry to say that there appears to be no end to it in sight.

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1 Vent here: WTDY's Studio Lines (during local programming only): (877) 867-1670 Toll Free (60 321-1670 *123 on your US Cellular mobile phone WTDY's mailing address: WTDY P.O. Box 2058 Madison, WI 53701 Business Office: (60 273-1000 Fax Line: (60 271-8182 WTDY's Management: General Manager: Tom Walker Operations Manager/Program Director: John Sylvester Promotions Director: Bonnie Oleson

Posted by: A Redder State of Mind at November 19, 2004 09:48 AM (NwpZc)

2 Weren't some Democrats upset over the jokes about Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks in the movie Barber Shop? Those weren't even racists ones. It seems their sense of humor (and racial sensitivity) depends on the target. If it's conservative blacks, anything goes. If it's liberal blacks, better watch out.

Posted by: Lawrence at November 19, 2004 05:14 PM (E/V1e)

3 Why does Sly have to even address Condi's skin color? Why is that even brought into the debate in the first place? Could it be that there's actually racism on the left? Let God be the judge of that, but thank God we need not take seriously the lefts dribble anymore. Long live the GOP.

Posted by: Michael Gallaugher at November 21, 2004 07:13 PM (iB1ES)

4 Mr. Slyvester, I do not know what Black people who you deem gave you permission to slander the good names of Dr. Rice and Mr. Powell, but I do take exception to your irresponsible behavior. As an African American man, I have encountered many white people on the left that went out of their way to inform me that they have black friends. My answer to them has always been "so what". What difference does it make whether you have black friends or not. That does not make you a non racist. What makes you a racist is that you go out of your way to malign people of other races (even if you have permission to engage in such reprehensible behaviors). Mr. Slyvester, I can understand if you do not agree with the political views of Dr. Rice, but I do believe that you have a responsibility to the greater community, therefore I cannot accept your outright racism. Thankyou for listening and good day.

Posted by: Russell H. Pressley at November 22, 2004 04:01 PM (eEs44)

5 I completely agree with John (Sly) Sylvester's remarks about Condoleeza Rice. As an advisor, she has never given Bush a single bit of advice; she has only done what she thought he wanted. What a sycophant! How somebody who is supposed to be smart could only want to serve Bush (who is too dumb to even have a conscience) instead of the country at large, as she is suppposed to, is beyond me. But, there is no doubt that she was accurately described by Sly. So Sly, hell no, don't apologize to anybody about this.

Posted by: brant watson at November 22, 2004 05:36 PM (apVBD)

6 Just saw John Sylvester on Hannity and Colmes. What a prick! You are a disgrace. I'm glad both Hannity and Colmes didn't allow you to just shoot your mouth off. A pathetic piece of excrement like you needs to be scrapped off your boot just like dog shit!

Posted by: Charles Lee at November 23, 2004 04:44 PM (h3UHO)

7 The fact that rice is black makes no difference to me. What does make a differenc is the she is named in a lawsuit along with Bush, Cheney, and all the rest for having forknowledge of the World Trade Center attacts. See 'Transcript: Alex Jones Interviews Stanley Hilton' on PrisonPlanet.com. This is a subject that should be explored more on the mainline media.

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Ted Rall has finally been given the axe from the Washington Post's web site.

Rall, whose cartoons give new meaning to the term "bedwetting liberal," has been under fire off and on since insulting former Arizona Cardinals player Pat Tillman, after his death with in combat in Afghanistan.

Rall's infantile scrawlings have included racially-tinged etchings against National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and most recently (and what got him yanked from the Post) a cartoon that showed a drooling mentally ill student.

Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to the electorate -- in essence, the idiots are now running the country," he told E&P.

"That cartoon certainly drew a significant amount of negative comment from our users," said WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Doug Feaver when contacted by E&P. But he added that the decision to drop Rall was a "cumulative" one that had been building for a while.

"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. We decided at the end of the day that it just did not fit the tone we wanted at WashingtonPost.com."

Rall was dropped effective Nov. 15, according to Feaver.

Rall himself criticized the site for the decision, saying that it was only over one "boneheaded drawing."

I, for one, won't be lamenting the Post's decision, but I'm sure there are plenty of other Kool-Aid drinkers who will.

If you've just GOTTA see the 'toon that got him finally yanked, it's below the fold. more...

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US GIs going through the beleagured Iraqi city of Fallujah happened upon what is believed to be a training center for the terrorist group headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the very group that started the latest beheading craze (starting with Nick Berg).

And how did the troops know it was Zarqawi's place? Probably because of the "Al Qaeda" sign out front.

In video footage shot by an embedded CNN crew, soldiers walked through one imposing building with concrete columns with a large sign in Arabic on the wall reading "Al-Qaeda Organiation" and "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."

Inside the building, US soldiers found documents, old computers, notebooks, photographs and copies of the Qu'ran.

The footage also showed that flight patterns were found for aircraft, along with plans and instructions for how to shoot them down.

There were also two letters inside the house, one from al-Zarqawi giving instructions to two of his lieutenants in the region. Another sought money and help from the terrorist leader.

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Is it just me, or does the new Clinton Presidential Library, from a distance, look for all the world, like an oversized double-wide trailer hanging out over the edge of the Arkansas River?

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Ready to buy Lands' End clothes, Kenmore appliances and Craftsman tools at your local K-Mart? How 'bout Martha Stewart housewares or Joe Boxer underwear at Sears?

You time will be coming soon.

K-Mart is purchasing Sears in an $11 billion deal that was announced today.

Both chains will still exist, though "a number" of K-Mart locations will be rebranded as Sears stores.

The new company, to be known as Sears Holding Co., will be headquartered in Chicago. This comes as a disappointment to business-watchers here in metro Atlanta, as K-Mart was seriously considering moving their corporate headquarters to Atlanta as recently as this past September.

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Leftist columnists and cartoonists have opened up with both barrels on Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice. As many remember, moonbat Ted Rall used his waste of space in newspapers everywhere this summer to insult Dr. Rice's race. Project 21 sent a formal letter of protest (under my signature) to Rall's synidcator, Kansas City-based United Press Syndicate, demanding Rall's removal from their slate of cartoonists, barring an apology. We also sent letters to the National Association of Black Journalists, the NAACP and Rainbow/PUSH, asking for their support in the matter.

United blew us off, saying that it was a free-speech issue; the NAACP sent us a form letter that basically said thanks, but no thanks; and from the NABJ & Jesse Jackson, we heard crickets.

Just last month, political cartoonist Jeff Danziger went down the same racially insulting road. At least Danziger had the where-with-all to pull the cartoon after a ruckus ensued over it's content.

Well, now that Dr. Rice has been nominated as the next Secretary of State, the moonbats are crawling out of the woodwork.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant has scrawled cartoons for multiple days of Dr. Rice as represented by a parrot with exaggerated lips, bucked teeth and dark skin, perched on a pirate's (President Bush's) shoulder.

A new column in the UK's Mirror newspaper continued the insult-fest.

IF THERE were a monkey in the White House - and many reckon there is - then his trainer would be the world's most powerful person.

As I've said here and elsewhere though, I'm not holding my breath waiting for any outrage on the part of the "soul patrol." After all, both the "soul patrol" and the remainder of the leftists out there have proven that racist statements against blacks are OK (contrary to their constant bleatings), provided they're against blacks who happen to be conservative.

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ABC has formally apologized for a slightly raunchy open to Monday Night Football featuring Philadelphia's Terrell Owens and actress Nicolette Sheridan of ABC's prime-time sudser Desperate Housewives.

The open featured Sheridan, clad only in a towel, trying to entice Owens. Once Sheridan dropped her towel, Owens opted out of the game, saying the team would have to win without him.

In the taped segment, Sheridan drops a towel and is shown from a rear angle unclothed down to the lower part of her back. After Owens says, "Aw, hell, the team's going to have to win without me," Sheridan jumps into his arms.

"We have heard from many of our viewers about last night's MNF opening segment, and we agree that the placement was inappropriate," ABC vice president Mark Mandel said in a statement. "We apologize."

In a strongly-worded statement, NFL public relations vice president Greg Aiello said, "ABC's opening was inappropriate and unsuitable for our Monday Night Football audience. While ABC may have gained attention for one of its other shows, the NFL and its fans lost."

A spokeswoman for the FCC who declined to be identified, said, "I can confirm we did receive complaints" about the ABC MNF opening. She said the complaints will be reviewed.

If an "apparent violation" of the rules is determined, the FCC would issue a "letter of inquiry" to ABC asking for more information about the incident. If a violation is ultimately determined, penalties that could include fines could ensue.

But with the kind of ratings Desperate Housewives has been getting, ABC isn't going to yank it off the air any time soon.

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A video released today shows the murder of CARE worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq.

The Irish family of aid worker Margaret Hassan taken hostage in Iraq have said they believe she is dead.

Their statement followed reports in Iraq of a video reportedly showing her murder.

Downing Street did not, and does not, as a matter of policy, negotiate with terrorists.

The body of a blond-haired woman was found on the streets of Fallujah by US Marines engaged in battle there. It is widely thought that the body is that of Hassan, but no confirmation has been made as of the present.

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This morning, someone suggested to me that Bill Cosby might be someone worth the Bush Administration's attention for the post of Secretary of Education.

I got that same quizical look on my face that probably is on yours at reading that statement. But after his continued vocal defiance of the "Soul Patrol" who would rather he dummied up and kept our collective "dirty laundry" in the closet, one has to wonder.

'Let them stay mad," Bill Cosby told CNN's Paula Zahn last week.

But Cosby has no plans to shut up. "This is about little children and people not giving them better choices," the 67 year-old actor-comedian told Zahn. "How long you gonna whisper about a smallpox epidemic in your apartment building when bodies are coming out under the sheets?"

At a Jesse Jackson confab in Chicago over the summer, Cosby kept up the scolding, despite being accused of airing African-Americans' dirty laundry in public. Cosby shot back that this dirty laundry is displayed on a daily basis by black youths who use profanity, call each other the "N" word, and think they're hip even thought they're barely literate.

He blasted blacks who hurl the same racial slurs at each other that are used by racist whites, and who don't take advantage of the opportunities that were so hard won by the heroes and heroines of the civil rights movement. And he offered no soothing words for black men who passed up the chance to get a high school education, but now vent their anger at not being able to earn a good living on the women in their lives.

He holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His doctoral thesis used his Fat Albert characters as a basis for teaching aids in the classroom. He was involved in the early seasons of CTW's (now Sesame Workshop) The Electric Company, and he created and produced Picture Pages for CBS and PBS' Captain Kangaroo. His Little Bill is currently part of the lineup of educational programs on NickJr.

Cosby's more recent outspoken stance toward education and personal responsibility has earned the ire of many from the "Soul Patrol" sector of black America, but because of his background and history, many other blacks are listening.

Perhaps it is time to bring his no-nonsense truth and wisdom to the Education Department.

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Garrison Keillor, host of American Public Media & NPR's popular A Prairie Home Companion the weekend after the November elections, during a live broadcast:

"I am now the chairman of a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians."

According to the University of Chicago Maroon newspaper, Keillor said, "If born-again Christians are allowed to vote in this country, then why not Canadians?"

I guess religious freedom is OK, provided you aren't a conservative and a Christian -- at least in Lake Wobegon.

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Dr. Condoleezza Rice is President Bush's choice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

Senior administration sources confirmed that Rice would be Bush's choice. The news came just hours after the White House announced Powell had submitted his resignation.

ABC News has also learned that Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley will likely replace Rice as national security adviser.

The announcement comes as a sort of birthday present for Rice, who turned 50 on Sunday.

I'm sure the leftists will talk about the "revolving door," or about "rats deserting a sinking ship," but this looks like more strategic planning by the Bush Administration.

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Is this the definition of "Losermobile?"

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Word out this morning that Colin Powell will be leaving his post as Secretary of State.

Several people have been named as a replacement, including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. FOX News contributor and former ambassador Mark Ginsberg said Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz may also want the job, but could face trouble getting confirmed because of the troubles in Iraq that he takes the blame for. Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is also a darkhorse for the job.

Three other cabinet level resignation announcements are expected today: Rod Paige from Education, Anne Veneman from Agriculture and Spence Abraham from the Energy Department.

Powell is expected to stick around until a replacement is found.

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From the November issue of Wired: more...

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In what sounds like a real-life Clive Cussler novel or an episode of Stargate: Atlantis, American explorer and researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have located the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis off of the shores of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Sarmast says sonar scanning indicates man-made walls on the seabed, one as long as two miles.

"It is a miracle we found these walls as their location, and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings," Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher.

"We have definitely found the Acropolis of Atlantis," he affirmed, adding the site was 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Cyprus.

The chief government archaeologist of Cyprus, Pavlos Flourentzos, reacted with skepticism, telling The Associated Press: "More proof is necessary."

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Sunday's London Mirror is claiming that video of an American Marine shooting an unarmed civilian in Fallujah, Iraq, has been shown on television in the UK.

A US marine has sparked world-wide revulsion after being seen shooting an injured and helpless Iraqi.

The sickening scene was broadcast by Channel 4 News after a fire-fight in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.

The trigger-happy soldier had been asked to get nearer to the injured man.

But instead of trying to capture him, the marine is seen leaning over a wall and cold-bloodedly shooting him.

He then turns to his colleagues and says: "He's gone". Coalition chiefs were last night under pressure to investigate the incident.

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