This article, written by Hugh Gusterson, appeared on The Bulletin on February 02,2012 As the last American soldiers left Iraq in December, so, too, did many of the journalists who had covered the war, leaving little in the way of media coverage of post-war Iraq. While there were some notable exceptions — including two fine articles by MIT’s John Tirman that asked how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the US invasion — overall the American press published few articles on the effects of the occupation, especially the consequences for Iraqis.

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What Happened to Iraq’s Great Universities?

What British officials call Prince William’s routine mission is stirring interest at home and abroad as the 30th anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands approaches.

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Prince William’s Posting to Falklands Revives Ire

For home invasion murders in 2007.

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Conn. Killer Sentenced to Death

Police in the District and Montgomery County say they suspect that the same pair of armed men may be responsible for a spate of as many as 12 street robberies since late November in Upper Northwest and within blocks of the Bethesda-District line near Western Avenue. Read full article > >

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Two Md. home invasions linked to same suspect; woman assaulted in one incident

A housekeeper was tied up and sexually assaulted and a mother and teenage son were tied up during a home invasion in Bethesda early Wednesday morning that Montgomery County police say involves the same suspect as in a home invasion Tuesday in Wheaton. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD — An al-Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings in Baghdad on Thursday that killed at least 65, saying that it “knows where and when to strike.” The group, Islamic State of Iraq, issued a communique on jihadist forums Monday, providing details about one of the attacks, a suicide car bombing that targeted an anti-corruption agency headquarters, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a jihadist monitoring service. The group referred to the bombings as the “Thursday invasion” and said that it was acting against what it called Iraq’s Shiite-controlled government. Read full article > >

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Al-Qaeda-allied group claims responsibility for Baghdad bombings

A 2-year-old boy who authorities say was abducted following a home invasion robbery and double homicide in Richmond, Virginia, was found late Saturday, police said.

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Boy, 2, found after double homicide

Virginia Tech place kicker Cody Journell was denied bail Thursday afternoon during a preliminary hearing in Montgomery General District Court in Christiansburg, Va., after he was charged and arrested Wednesday night with breaking and entering following an alleged home invasion at the residence of Virginia Tech basketball player Dorenzo Hudson. Read full article > >

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Virginia Tech PK Cody Journell is denied bail after alleged break-in at home of Hokies basketball player Dorenzo Hudson

The last convoy of US troops to leave Iraq crosses the border into Kuwait, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

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Last US troops withdraw from Iraq

The American war in Iraq is over. The last U.S. soldier will be home by Christmas, and for the first time in a decade, no American service member is preparing for deployment in Mesopotamia. As America leaves the Iraq war, what has the war left America? There are the images. Where Vietnam gave us the Huey helicopter landing among rotor-washed palms, Iraq’s icon is the Humvee rumbling through a dun-colored landscape of desert. The arc of the American experience in Iraq can be told through the collage from hope to barbarity, from swaggering invasion to quiet departure. Read full article > >

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Arc of Iraq war told in images

TEHRAN — Iranian military experts are in the final stages of extracting data from a sophisticated U.S. drone brought down by the Iranian armed forces, a lawmaker said Monday. In Washington, President Obama said Monday that the United States has asked Iran to return the drone. Parviz Sorouri, a key member of the parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, told Iranian state television that the extracted information would be used to file a lawsuit against the United States over the “invasion” by the unmanned aircraft. Read full article > >

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Iran claims to extract data from U.S. drone

PARIS — Former military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega was flown home to Panama on Sunday to be punished once again for crimes he committed during a career that saw him transformed from a close Cold War ally of Washington to the vilified target of a U.S. invasion. Noriega left Orly airport, south of Paris, on a flight of Spain’s Iberia airlines, delivered directly to the aircraft by a four-car convoy and motorcycles that escorted him from the French capital’s La Sante prison. The flight, which stops in Madrid, left at 8:08 a.m., about a half-hour behind schedule. Read full article > >

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After 22 years, former strongman Noriega flown home to Panama to be punished once again

A jury on Friday recommended that Joshua Komisarjevsky receive the death penalty for his role in a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007.

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A Connecticut jury condemns Joshua Komisarjevsky to death over a grisly home invasion murder case that has impacted the state’s death penalty laws.

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Death for US home invasion killer

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A jury has condemned a Connecticut man to death for killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 attack in their suburban home. The jury deliberated over the span of five days before returning the verdict against Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV’-skee). His accomplice, Steven Hayes, is already on death row. Read full article > >

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