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Four US troops killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Three US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad and in a separate attack a US soldier was killed in Hit, northwest of the capital, the US military said on Friday.

Meanwhile, the defence lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein who was kidnapped just a day after the opening of the former Iraqi dictator’s trial over a Shia massacre has been killed, officials said on Friday.

The body of Saadoun Janabi was found with a bullet to his head in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Ur, they said. He had been seized from his office by two carloads of gunmen late on Thursday, in an abduction that triggered calls from Saddam’s legal team for better protection for his Iraqi lawyer Khalil Al-Dulaimi.

Janabi’s murder followed the release of a reporter from Britain’s Guardian newspaper who was kidnapped on Wednesday while interviewing a victim of Saddam’s regime. On Thursday, Iraqi officials also announced the capture of Saddam’s nephew Yasser Sabawi for allegedly funding insurgent violence, and the US military said a senior lieutenant to Al-Qaeda front man Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi had been killed during raids Saturday. On the political front, electoral officials were continuing to count paper ballots to determine the results of Iraq’s constitutional referendum on Saturday after reports of anomalies in the voting. agencies

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