5 U.S. soldiers killed, 9 hurt in Iraq

A bombing, in Tarmiya, 30 miles north of Baghdad on the Tigris, killed three soldiers and wounded nine.

In addition to the bomb victims, the command said that one Marine had been killed Thursday in combat operations in Anbar province, a main stronghold of the insurgency, and that a soldier had died in Baghdad on Friday of "non- battle injuries" that it would not describe.