Word: porousness
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...That Mindanao seems to be morphing from being mainly a separatist issue for the Philippines into a terrorist problem for the rest of Southeast Asia has Malaysian and Indonesian officials on full alert. (Both countries have porous maritime borders with Mindanao.) Over recent weeks, Malaysian police have detained six suspects in the town of Sandakan in Borneo for arranging the transport of JI recruits to Mindanao. Meanwhile, Indonesian police say that several of the 18 men arrested for plotting and executing the Dec. 5 bombing of a McDonald's outlet in Makassar in South Sulawesi province have confessed to being...
...It’s very interesting how there’s a porous relationship between what [Holden] reads and studies and his personal life,” Marcel A.Q. LaFlamme ’04 says. “So many students tend to compartmentalize between what they do in school and who they are outside. He makes me wonder why there need to be such rigid distinctions...
Kenya made a ripe choice. Al-Qaeda has spent years operating there. The government had done little to tighten security after the 1998 bomb blast that shattered the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, along with a twin assault in Tanzania. Porous borders with war-ravaged Somalia and Sudan made it easy to bring in surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). Mombasa has little in the way of immigration or passport controls, and the steamy seaside city is home to the most radical Muslims in the country. Australian intelligence picked up enough chatter about potential danger in Mombasa to issue a travel warning...
...region's extortion and smuggling rackets, not international terrorists groups. But no one is taking any chances. While publicly dismissing the possibility of an imminent strike the government has at the same time bolstered security in some of the most popular tourist haunts, at airports and around its porous borders. "We are not a target for international terrorists," insists government spokesman Sita Divari, but he adds: "We are conscious and prepared." By Andrew Perrin/Bangkok...
With Rose playing behind a porous offensive line, Harvard couldn’t keep up. Still hobbled by a bad back, Rose was virtually immobile under pressure, and struggled to find time to throw to senior All-American Carl Morris...