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American Troops to Accompany UN Nuclear Team in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces will accompany inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency while they visit a key Iraqi nuclear site, and their limited mission sets no precedent for any future role for the agency in Iraq, Defense Department officials said on Thursday.

A senior U.S. military official, speaking by telephone from Baghdad, also said Army health officials were arriving in Iraq to gauge if American troops had been exposed to medical risks while at the looted Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.

US soldiers conduct a house to house search after one US soldier was killed and five injured in an early morning attack in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday June 5, 2003.

U.S. paratroopers deploy in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja, June 4, 2003. One soldier with the 101st Airborne was killed and five were wounded early June 5 in Falluja when an unknown assailant fired at them with a rocket-propelled grenade, U.S. Central Command said.

U.S. soldier of the 82nd Airborne covers other soldiers, not in the picture, during a house-to-house search for guns in a neighborhood of Baghdad, Wednesday, June 4, 2003.

A U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne out of North Carolina goes up the stairs of an Iraqi house during a house-to-house search for guns in a neiborhood of Baghdad, Wednesday, June 4, 2003.

Sgt. Michael Beal, left, from Tennessee, of the 82nd Airborne, uncovers a Kalashnikov in the bedroom of an Iraqi family, right, during a house to house search in a neiborhood of Baghdad, Wednesday, June 4, 2003.

An Iraqi approaches the city hall of Ar-Ramadi about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad as US soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division stand guard outside on Wednesday, June 4, 2003. Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division descended Wednesday in Fallujah and Habaniyah and neighboring towns to quell an increasing anti-American resistance.