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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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

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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Jury votes for death in home invasion

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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Man condemned to die for killing 3 in Conn. home invasion; will join accomplice on death row

IRAN HAS BEEN showing signs of increasing nervousness about the possibility that its nuclear program will come under attack by Israel or the United States. From the West’s point of view, this alarm is good: The more Iran worries about a military attack, the more likely it is to scale back its nuclear activity. The only occasion in which Tehran froze its weaponization program came immediately after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when it feared it might be the next American target. That’s why the Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, regularly repeats that “all options are on the table.” Read full article > >

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The wrong signals to Iran

HIGHLIGHTS After joining together to perform an opening song by Arcade Fire, the groups tackle rock classics and country songs on “The Sing-Off” (NBC at in hopes to impress the judges and nab that $200,000 and recording contract prize. The colony is in chaos on “Terra Nova” (Fox at after a meteor destroys all the technology, while Maddy and Reynolds find themselves abandoned in the wild, and Taylor attempts to stop Mira from an invasion. Read full article > >

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The US-dominated world of poker is under threat of invasion from a wave of British players. How have they barged their way in?

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Is the UK about to conquer poker?

Supporters of the Iraq war continue to argue that the invasion of that country paved the way for the Arab Spring. Over the weekend, former presidential envoy L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer wrote in this newspaper of certain similarities he saw between the two countries in the post-dictator world. First, Moammar Gaddafi ’s death “came eight months after the start of military operations there,” Bremer writes, “the same length of time it took us to track down Saddam Hussein after U.S. forces liberated Baghdad in 2003.” Read full article > >

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The Hussein-Gaddafi nexus

NAIROBI, Kenya — Grenade blasts at a blue-collar bar and a crowded bus stop rattled Nairobi on Monday, as the country worried whether al-Qaida-linked militants from Somalia were carrying out their promise to launch reprisal attacks in Kenya’s capital. The attacks came only two days after the U.S. warned of “imminent” terror attacks. The U.S. warning had implied that the Somali group al-Shabab would carry out reprisals in response to Kenyan troops’ invasion of Somalia in mid-October. The militants had promised to unleash terror attacks in Nairobi in retaliation for the offensive. Read full article > >

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2 grenade blasts rattle Nairobi; 1 dead after blue-collar bus stop, working class bar targeted