Ron Paul: Syria Chemical Attack A 'False Flag' by Mikael Thalen from InfoWars.com

Ron Paul: Syria Chemical Attack A ‘False Flag’

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August 30, 2013
During an interview on Fox Business’ Cavuto Wednesday, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) commented on the unfolding situation in Syria, specifically calling the recent chemical attack a ‘false flag’ likely carried out by the US backed Al Qaeda filled rebels.
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“<strong>I think it’s a false flag</strong>…” said Paul. “Why don’t we ask about the Al Qaeda? Why are we on the side of the Al Qaeda right now?”
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Syria charade: West Bent on war, UN investigation meaningless from RT by Neil Clark

Syria charade: West bent on war, UN investigation meaningless

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A convoy of United Nations (UN) vehicles leave a hotel in Damascus on August 26, 2013 carrying UN inspectors travelling to the site of a suspected deadly chemical weapon attack the previous week in Ghouta, east of the capital. (AFP Photo)

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There is no evidence that the Syrian government ordered the massacre with chemical weapons, but the West will blame it anyway because they want war, investigative journalist Neil Clark told RT.
RT: As we can see the US, Britain, France and Turkey are all waiting on options in Syria. How ready are they to move from words to action at this point?
Neil Clark: They are really bent on war and whatever the UN inspectors do this week won’t matter because it is a replay of 2003 when Saddam Hussein was bullied into allowing weapons inspection teams into Iraq. They went in there, they found no weapons, and yet we still had the war. In fact, they launched the war before the weapons inspection team could finish their job.  It is a very similar scenario now in Syria.

Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making by Paul Craig Roberts

» Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making — Paul Craig Roberts By: pcr3| August 26, 2013 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: craig roberts, |  Print This Article Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making Paul Craig Roberts Update: The war criminals in Washington and other Western capitals are determined to maintain their lie that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Having failed in efforts to intimidate the UN chemical inspectors in Syria, Washington has demanded that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon withdraw the chemical weapons inspectors before they can assess the evidence and make their report. The UN Secretary General stood up to the Washington war criminals and rejected their demand. However, as with Iraq, Washington's decision to commit aggression against Syria is not based on any facts. http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-un-war-investigation-006/ The US and UK governments have revealed none of the “conclusive evidence” they claim to have that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Listening to their voices, observing their body language, and looking into their eyes, it is completely obvious that John Kerry and his British and German puppets are lying through their teeth. This is a far more shameful situation than the massive lies that former Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Colin Powell claims that he was deceived by the White House and did not know that he was lying. Kerry and the British, French, and German puppets know full well that they are lying. The face that the West presents to the world is the brazen face of a liar.

War Against Syria Wouild Be The Least Popular War In American History by WashingtonsBlog

War Against Syria Would Be The Least Popular War In American History

Posted on August 27, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog

Far Less Support than All Recent Wars … Even Less Popular than the King of England During the Revolutionary War

Slate and Infowars both ask with the Syrian War is the least popular war in American history. They point to much higher support for the Vietnam war … even in the midst of mass opposition to those hostilities.
Slate also notes:

47 percent of Americans supported the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, which Talking Points Memo noted at the time was the “lowest level of support for an American military campaign in at least 30 years.” Seventy-six percent of American initially supported the Iraq War, and 90 percent supported U.S. action in Afghanistan in 2001.

On the eve of NATO military action in Kosovo in 1999, Gallup described public support as “tepid” at 46 percent. By contrast, 81 percent of Americans thought that George H.W. Bush was “doing the right thing” prior to the beginning of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Fifty-three percent initially supported in the invasion of Grenada. Even at their worst points, support for the wars in Iraq and Vietnam hovered around 30 percent.

Lawsuits Over Fluoride by Katerine Kelly from Crescent City Times.com

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LAWSUITS OVER FLUORIDE

BY KATHERINE KELLY

Just as we, Del Norte Clean Water Coalition, tried to warn our city council about the liability they share for refusing to address the concerns of water fluoridation because of potential lawsuits, it is beginning to happen. Around the country, lawyers are preparing to stand up to the big web of money and lies that has surrounded the water fluoridation program since its inception in the late 1940s.
In Maryland, such a case is going forward against Dannon, Nestle, Nestle Waters, and Gerber by a young woman with dental fluorosis caused by consuming products containing fluoride from these companies. Dental fluorosis is a permanent condition and requires expensive cosmetic procedures that have to be repeated every 8 to 10 years.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius gave notice in the January 13, 2011 Federal Register (pages 2383-86) that 41% of all people in the U.S. who were 12 to 15 years old between 1999 and 2004 have dental fluorosis from ingesting too much fluoride, primarily from drinking fluoridated water and swallowing fluoridated toothpaste, both occuring before they were 9 years old.

The Greatest Dirty Open Secret by Arthur R. Butz from IHR

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In the trials and tribulations of Fredrick Töben one can observe in operation the greatest dirty open secret of our day. In explaining that remark here, I will do my best to be objective, despite the fact that because of the conditions I am to discuss several of my friends have been imprisoned or fined for doing the sorts of things I also do.
In October 1997 I received a request from Töben, director of the Adelaide Institute and a Holocaust revisionist, to be a defense witness for him in his hearings before the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). The role would have involved writing a letter for him and perhaps testifying by telephone from my home near Chicago.
I resisted this request, pleading a shortage of time and the fact that he had told me, earlier that year in Chicago, that the Australian "Human Rights" legislation has no teeth and that he did not have to pay any attention to such proceedings against him. Both pleas were true but I had another strong reason for my reticence, which was too complicated to state in these rapid-fire e-mail messages, but which can be explained here in due course.
In any case I relented after a few passionate e-mails from Töben. I wrote a two page letter, intended to be submitted to the HREOC hearings. The letter, dated November 5, declared:

Vice President Biden on American Mass Media and Cultural Life by Mark Weber from IHR

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Role in American Mass Media and Cultural Life By Mark Weber
July 2013
In a remarkable but under-reported address, Vice President Joe Biden recently acknowledged that the “immense” and “outsized” Jewish role in the US mass media and cultural life has been the single most important factor in shaping American attitudes over the past century, and in driving major cultural- political changes.
“Jewish heritage has shaped who we are – all of us – as much or more than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that's a fact," Biden told a gathering of Jewish leaders on May 21, 2013, in Washington, DC. “The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it's fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage,” he added.

Growing Up In America- Paul Craig Roberts

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Things Are Bad And Getting Worse

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Terrible things are happening faster than we can keep up with them. Monsanto, widely regarded as a criminal enterprise, is expanding its monopoly over seeds and food production into Chile and Latin America. http://rt.com/news/chile-protest-monsanto-law-634/ Monsanto has given up for now on monopolizing Europe’s agriculture, but has brought the EU around to allowing it to market GMO food products. Money speaks, which perhaps is the reason that Chile’s former president, Michelle Bachelet, introduced the pro-Monsanto legislation that one of the legislative chambers has passed. There are mass demonstrations in Chile against the legislation that destroys Chile’s sovereignty over its food production, but just as Monsanto can purchase the US government it also can purchase the Chilean government. In our day and time, governments are just another commodity to be bought and sold by powerful corporations.

A Freemason's Choice

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I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,
As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”
He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do.”
And I tho’t to myself as I went my way,
Which of these two roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds by a well-made plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,
Content with the labor of tearing down?
– Unknown

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Hungary Asks IMF To Leave by Margit Feher from The Wall Street Journal

Hungary Asks IMF to Leave

IMF Says It Won't Fill its Office in Budapest

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BUDAPEST—Hungary's central bank on Monday asked the International Monetary Fund, which helped rescue the country from the brink of insolvency in 2008, to close its Budapest office, as authorities here seek to reassert their sovereignty ahead of national elections next year.
In a letter to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, the new central bank governor Gyorgy Matolcsy wrote that since the standby loan agreement between Hungary and the IMF is about to end, "we have come to the conclusion that it is not necessary to maintain" the IMF's representative office.
The IMF said it would follow the government's request.
"As Ms. Iryna Ivaschenko's posting as Resident Representative in Hungary was due to end in late August and the IMF's presence in member countries is at the invitation of country authorities, the IMF will not seek to replace her," said spokeswoman Angela Gaviria.

Michael Hastings Feared His Mercedes had Been Tampered With by Paul Joseph Watson

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Michael Hastings Feared His Mercedes Had Been Tampered With

Day before crash: “He was afraid to drive his own car”
Paul Joseph Watson
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August 22, 2013

The very day before a suspicious car crash claimed his life, journalist Michael Hastings feared his Mercedes had been tampered with and asked to borrow a friend’s vehicle, telling her that he was “scared and wanted to leave town.”

The revelation, which emerged in an LA Weekly interview with Jordanna Thigpen, re-emphasizes the fact that Hastings was fearful for his safety having complained of being under scrutiny by the FBI.

Helicopters often circle over the hills, but Hastings believed there were more of them around whenever he was at home, keeping an eye on him. He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with. “Nothing I could say could console him,” Thigpen says.

One night in June, he came to Thigpen’s apartment after midnight and urgently asked to borrow her Volvo. He said he was afraid to drive his own car. She declined, telling him her car was having mechanical problems.

“He was scared, and he wanted to leave town,” she says.

The next day, around 11:15 a.m., she got a call from her landlord, who told her Hastings had died early that morning. His car had crashed into a palm tree at 75 mph and exploded in a ball of fire.

What Was Bradley Manning's Sin? by Michael S. Rozeff

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What Was Bradley Manning’s Sin?

Michael S. Rozeff at 12:03 pm EDT on August 22, 2013

What was Bradley Manning’s sin that warrants a sentence of 35 years? It was a sin manufactured by the State against the State’s version of righteousness. A righteous person, according to the State, is a State co-conspirator who is required to keep silent when observing crimes of the State. There is a conspiracy of silence and secrecy, like the Mafia’s omerta. Manning joined the conspiracy and then broke the rule of silence. He failed to place his conscience on hold or abeyance while serving the State. Now he must pay for his “sin”, the State claims. What sin? There is no real sin here on his part, and no real crime. There is only a power play, as authority attempts to prevent information from spreading about what its actions really are and really entail. The sentence of Manning has absolutely nothing to do with justice and honesty. There is no justice without honesty. The State is encouraging the dishonesty of silence about its nefarious operations.

Katyn and 'The Good War' by Pat Buchanan

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Pat Buchanan Katyn and 'The Good War' The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the terrible and tragic days and deeds of what many yet call the Good War. From Russian reports, the Polish pilot waved off four commands from air traffic control to divert to Moscow or Minsk. The airfield at Smolensk was fogged in. There is speculation that Kaczynski, fiercely nationalistic and distrustful of Russians, may have defiantly ordered his pilot to land, rather than delay the 70th anniversary of Katyn. The symbolism is inescapable. For it was Polish defiance of Adolf Hitler's demand to negotiate the return of Danzig, a German town put under Polish control after World War I, that gave birth to the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which led to Katyn.

Conspiracy Theory and the French Revolution by Geoff Muirden from IHR

Institute for Historical Review Historical News and Comment Conspiracy Theory and the French Revolution GEOFF MUIRDEN Since 1989 is the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution this is an especially apt time to consider the conspiratorial theory of history presented in Mrs. Nesta Webster's classic, The French Revolution. Mrs. Webster presents not one conspiracy, but several, insisting that plots by the Freemasons and Illuminati, mixed with those by the Duc d'Orleans and foreign powers combined to produce the tragedy of the French Revolution. Taking these in turn, Webster suggests that: The lodges of the German Freemasons and Illuminati were thus the source whence emanated all those anarchic schemes which culminated in the Terror, and it was at a great meeting of the Freemasons in Frankfurt-am-Main, three years before the French Revolution began, that the deaths of Louis XVI and Gustavus III of Sweden were first planned. [1]

Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards by Ellen and Paul Connett, Ph.D.

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Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards

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By Ellen and Paul Connett, Ph.D.

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Introduction

The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) revised rule on National Organic Standards (NOS), proposed in March 2000, was finalized in December. For the most part, the standards have been written with care and integrity. For the rest, they attracted over 40,000 comments from the public. The standards were first proposed in 1997 and included proposals to use sewage sludge, irradiation, antibiotics in livestock, and genetically modified organisms. USDA withdrew the proposal after receiving over 275,000 comments from the public-- the most comments received on any US agency proposal in history.

Was Washington behind Egypt's coup d'etat? by Michel Chossudovsky from RT

Was Washington behind Egypt’s coup d’etat?

Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, professor of economics, founder and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal and editor of the globalresearch.ca website.

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US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (R) listens as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier)

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The overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Armed forces was not carried out against US interests, it was instigated to ensure “continuity” on behalf of Washington.
“[US Defense Secretary] Hagel and [US Chief of Staff General] Dempsey were walking a fine line … expressing concern while attempting to avoid the impression that the U.S. was manipulating events behind the scenes.” (Military.com, July 3, 2013)
The protest movement is directed against the US and its proxy Muslim Brotherhood regime.
The Muslim Brotherhood had been spearheaded into the government with the support of Washington as a “replacement” rather than an “alternative” to Hosni Mubarak, who had faithfully obeyed the orders of the Washington Consensus from the outset of his presidency.
While the Armed Forces have cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood,  the Coup d’Etat is ultimately intended to manipulate the protest movement and prevent the accession of a “real people’s government”.  The overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Armed forces was not carried out against US interests, it was instigated to ensure “continuity” on behalf of Washington.
“Demonstrators carried hand-made posters denouncing Obama and his pro-Muslim Brotherhood Cairo Ambassador, Anne Patterson.” (F. William Engdahl, Global Research, July 4, 2013). 

The Unhealthiest of "Health Foods" by Dr. Mercola

The Unhealthiest of “Health Foods”

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If you grew up believing the best way to start your day was a bowl of cereal, a piece of whole wheat toast smeared with margarine, and a glass of orange juice, you’re in good company.
If your health is ailing and you’re reading this, chances are your lack of progress isn’t due to apathy or poorwill power but instead, confusion over which foods are good for you and which are not.
Many foods considered “health foods” are doing exactly the opposite of what is claimed, thanks to massively successful corporate advertising campaigns. There are solid scientific reasons why America’s waistline has continued to expand.
In an article by certified personal trainer and health enthusiast Kris Gunnars, 11 so-called health foods are discussed,¹ and unlike most mainstream nutrition articles, I agree with all of them.
If you are stumped about why you aren’t making progress toward your health or fitness goals, you might just be a victim of your “health food.” It would help to take a look at those popular foods, starting with one of the most beloved beverages among children and adults alike: fruit juices.

Shocking Truth About Drones Kept from American Public by Richard Walker of AFP

Shocking Truth About Drones Kept from American Public

August 16, 2013   AFP

• Huge number of those killed are women, children, elderly

By Richard Walker

The shocking truth about America’s use of remote-controlled “drone” airplanes is that at least one in five of all those killed by strikes in Pakistan have been women, children and the elderly. The same may be true of the expanded drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia.

The recent publication by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) of a classified Pakistan military investigation into drone strikes between 2006 and 2009 opened a disturbing window into the awful civilian deaths in the Bush-Obama secret drone war. It also exposed the under-reporting of civilian casualties and the reluctance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pakistani authorities to come clean about the numbers and identities of all those killed.

It highlighted the deliberate confusion created after a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone hit a religious school in the Bajaur Agency in 2006, killing, according to tribal elders, 80 children. Pakistan at first took “credit” for the strike and had the media reporting the victims were militants. But when photographs emerged of the massacre, the Pakistani government quickly reversed course. It then laid the strike at the door of the CIA.

Dealey Plaza: Esoteric Freemasonic Symbolism in the Death of JFK from The Kentroversy Papers

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Dealey Plaza: Esoteric Freemasonic Symbolism in the Death of JFK

After JFK promised to end the Viet Nam war, smash the CIA into a thousand pieces, and signed a Presidential Executive Order authorizing the U.S. Congress to begin producing their own Silver Certificates called 'United States Notes,' he quickly found himself TARGETED by the criminal elite, one of which included CIA operative George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush was photographed outside of the Texas Schoolbook Depository during he moments of the assassination itself. He would later LIE about many aspects of his personal involvement in the assassination plan, however.


DEALEY PLAZA: ESOTERIC FREEMASONIC SYMBOLISM IN THE DEATH OF JFK
© 2006-2007 Kent Daniel Bentkowski

“To really do good research, you need to specialize!
Pick out one or two JFK subjects that really interest
you, and then research the hell out of them.”

--- Penn Jones, Jr. to JFK photographic expert Jack White,
from ‘Assassination Science,’ pg. 211


The quote above states a fundamental fact concerning academic research. In order to produce worthwhile results, one needs to specialize in specific areas in which they are an expert, to the exclusion of all other non-relevant subjects. Because of my own research into the ritualized behavior of the high-level occult practitioners known as the global elite, I have concentrated on the following aspects of the public execution of President Kennedy; the occult symbology associated with the location as well as with the assassination itself. In addition, I have also widely expanded the so-called coincidences list that compare JFK with Abraham Lincoln, as well as other aspects of the family symbolism that had been connected to what now seems to have been JFK's deliberate and inevitable fate.

Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War from Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research

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The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation.
The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami:

“This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”

Nuclear radiation –which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the tabloid gossip reports on Hollywood celebrities.

The Courage of Bradley Manning by John Pilger

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The Courage of Bradley Manning

By John Pilger

August 9, 2013

The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. This was not deemed mainstream news in America; and were it not for Alexa O’Brien, an independent freelance journalist, Manning’s voice would have been silenced. Working through the night, she transcribed and released his every word. It is a rare, revealing document.
Describing the attack by an Apache helicopter crew who filmed civilians as they murdered and wounded them in Baghdad in 2007, Manning said: “The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seemingly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have. They seemed not to value human life by referring to them as ‘dead bastards’ and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety [who] is seriously wounded … For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass.” He hoped “the public would be as alarmed as me” about a crime which, as his subsequent leaks revealed, was not an aberration.

Rise of the Superbugs by Dr. Mercola

Documentary: Rise of the Superbugs

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Antibiotic overuse is a major threat to public health, and after watching the documentary Rise of the Superbugs, you’ll understand exactly why.
Diseases that were deadly prior to the invention of modern-day antibiotics are now coming back with a vengeance, having developed resistance to these once foolproof treatments.
First it was MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), once rare but now far too commonplace in medical settings, but now antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections like multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), meningitis and others are spreading around the globe.

NDM-1: The Indian Superbug That Could Unleash a New Drug-Resistant Epidemic

Antibiotic overuse is rampant all over the world, including in India where antibiotics are available for low cost and without a prescription. There, it’s estimated that more than half of bacterial infections in Indian hospitals are resistant to commonly used antibiotics, and many are also resistant to the more powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics.¹
A growing number of infections, however, now carry a gene called "New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1," or NDM-1 that confers ‘super resistance’ to conventional antibiotics.
Resistant to carbapenems, powerful “last-resort” intravenous antibiotics as well as at least 14 other antibiotics, NDM-1 is virtually unstoppable… and it’s not staying in India, either.

'Face of terror' Boston sgt suspended over leak of Tsarnaev's arrest photos from Prison Planet .com

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‘Face of terror’: Boston sgt suspended over leak of Tsarnaev’s arrest photos

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After Boston Magazine published previously unseen photographs of the night of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture, in response to a now controversial Rolling Stone cover, the man who released the pictures has had his badge revoked.
The new images, which were provided by Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, were accompanied by a statement written by Murphy, who was angered by the magazine cover of Tsarnaev, arguing that it promoted an unfair image of the suspected terrorist.
“The truth is that glamorizing the face of terror is not just insulting to the family members of those killed in the line of duty, it also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine,” wrote Murphy.
On Thursday evening Murphy told CNN that he had been placed on leave from his job pending a review next week. Earlier in the day, a police spokesman had told reports that the agency had not authorized publication of the photos Murphy had taken.