Word: porousness
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...Vermont: In his first season holding the reins in Burlington, Kevin Sneddon ’92 has struggled. The Catamounts have managed only four league wins to this point, and little figures to change over the last four given their porous defense. The one possible Vermont win—this Friday against Yale—could easily see one team reach double digits...
...Salan's try to navigate the 275-km-wide stretch of sea between Libya and Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, which has become the preferred crossing point for thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe. Italy's 7,600-km-long coastline is the European Union's most porous border. It's also the most perilous to reach. Over the past decade, thousands of would-be immigrants are believed to have died in Italian waters, including 283 who drowned off the coast of Sicily in a single 1996 incident. Some 623 would-be immigrants survived the voyage last month...
...America. "They are coming into Iraq through many gates," says Ali Abdul Ameer, spokesman for the Iraqi National Accord, which is taking its turn this month to head the Governing Council. "We cannot stop them." The U.S. has installed Iraqi police to patrol a frontier as long and as porous as the U.S. border with Mexico, but they number just 2,700, perhaps 10% of what U.S. officials say is required. The U.S. says it is working to stop illegal entry, but bottling up the borders will not be easy...
...Although the intelligence services have concrete details identifying 45 JI operatives in the area, Ermita says the total number of foreign Islamic militants is hard to estimate. "Our borders are very porous," he concedes. "We don't have the resources or the navy to protect them, so [terrorists] come and go at will." Other senior government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say materials gathered from the safe houses indicate that there are "hundreds" of "heavily armed and well-financed" JI members on the island of Mindanao. Most of these operatives are Indonesian, reveals an official who has access...
...POROUS BORDER The 506-mile (814-km) border with Iraq is a largely uninhabited, vast stretch of open desert. The Saudis say those attempting to cross could easily be spotted by patrols...