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5 U.S. troops killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Three U.S. airmen and two soldiers were killed in Iraq, said the U.S. military on Sunday.

A car bomb in Baghdad on Sunday killed three airmen, it said in a statement. One airman was also injured in the explosion. A soldier died on Saturday from small arms fire in Baghdad, the military said. Another soldier died on Friday from combat wounds sustained in the volatile western Anbar province.

The U.S. military in Iraq has confiscated the former President, Saddam Hussein's books and notes and poems he wrote in jail to ``screen'' them before returning them to his lawyers, one of his attorneys said on Sunday.

``We asked the Americans to hand us the books the President read in jail as well as the notes and poems he wrote but they want to screen them and read them in full before giving them to us,'' Jordanian lawyer Issam al-Ghazzawi said.

Saddam was a prolific writer and is known to have penned several books and poems in his lifetime. — Agencies

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