After the operation in the village, dubbed Peninsula Strike, a force of 4,000 soldiers rounded up 400 residents and detained them at an air base seven miles north.
Ten miles north of here in Balad, 4,000 soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Division this week conducted an operation called "Peninsula Strike" in an area where a large number of Baath Party loyalists and supporters of Mr. Hussein live.
Near Balad north of Baghdad, the Fourth Infantry Division continued to search for Baath Party officials, former Iraqi military officials and other supporters of Mr. Hussein's government in an operation called Peninsula Strike.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch admonishes the Americans for excessive use of force in the town.Two full-scale military operations in the past week, codenamed Peninsula Strike and Desert Scorpion, sent thousands of troops on house-to-house sweeps that netted hundreds of detainees.
On September 23, Claudia crossed over the western portion of the Baja California peninsula, moved over water, and again struck the peninsula before dissipating.
Winds along the peninsula were strong, though not as strong as Hurricane Calvin, a hurricane which struck the peninsula during July 1993.
A similar slide off the Palos Verdes peninsula near Long Beach probably struck within the last 1000 years, says geological engineer Jacques Locat of Laval University in Sainte-Foy, Quebec.
Last month, another hurricane, Isidore, struck the Yucatán peninsula and did an estimated $740 million in damage.
If war struck the Korean peninsula, Japan could not even refuel an American plane heading for the fight.
The meteors would have been smaller than the six-mile-wide meteor that struck the Yucatán peninsula 65 million years ago and led to the mass extinctions of the dinosaurs.
