Tanks shelled a military intelligence headquarters in Salfit and also fired at suspected militants in Ramallah.
But only the F.B.I. operates a no-fly list, and it is aimed at suspected terrorists.
And Saleh has allowed the United States, at least until last year, to fire missiles at suspected terrorists.
In 2007, the agency began taking a closer look at suspected tax abuses at hedge funds and private equity firms.
About 1,800 airstrikes were directed against the Iraqi government and 800 at suspected hiding places and installations for illicit weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles.
As with two other recent raids aimed at suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts in southern Afghanistan, this one apparently failed to net any senior figures.
It maintains a discreet training and advisory mission, conducts secret operations with local forces and has fired cruise missiles at suspected terrorists.
The American military command in Baghdad said in a statement that it did not retract its position that the operation was aimed at suspected Shiite militants and that it was "fully coordinated and approved by the Iraqi government".
In another exceptionally heavy barrage, eight American drones fired at least 17 missiles at suspected militants along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, Pakistani security officials and residents said.
As a result, the detailed legal rules for a vast majority of drone strikes, including so-called signature strikes aimed at suspected militants whose names are unknown to the people targeting them, remain secret even from the Congressional intelligence committees.
In the weeks before Monday's election, a series of meetings among President Bush's national security advisers resulted in a significant relaxation of the rules under which American forces could aim attacks at suspected Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the tribal areas near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
