Unabomber wants papers, bomb back

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has asked the government to return his personal papers and other materials, including a bomb seized by the FBI.

Kaczynski asked a federal judge to make the government ship the materials to a University of Michigan archive that already contains more than 15,000 of his papers.

Kaczynski is serving life without the possibility of parole at a prison in Colorado. He killed three men and injured 23 other people in 16 bombings, according to the government and Kaczynski's own guilty plea. The bombings occurred between 1978 and 1995.

Legal experts said the government would probably be allowed to keep the materials.

Kaczynski concedes the issue is complex, and legal rulings are inconsistent.

But he said the government should release the material for the sake of posterity.