"The border is very porous".
Because the border is very subtle.
"We can't say that nothing is coming in because, as you see, the border is very expansive," he said.
"The border is very long and anyone can go back and forth through the mountains, especially at night".
"Crossing the border is very easy for us without having a passport or any other kind of identification cards," he said.
The town, not far from Greenfield and the Vermont border, is "very much a character" in the story, Mrs. Downey added.
After the war the border was very restricted but in the '90s it started to open up because of the economy.
The Iranian border is very close to Baghdad, and Iranian ground forces could swiftly get here, but the Iranians have always preferred to act through proxies and advisers in Iraq.
Policing the porous Iraq-Iran border is very difficult, especially for an American force that is trying to bring order to Baghdad and stabilize the cities in northern and southern Iraq.
General Philip Breedlove, Nato's supreme allied commander in Europe, said earlier on Sunday that the Russian military force gathered near the Ukrainian border was "very, very sizeable and very, very ready" and could even pose a threat to Moldova, on the other side of the country.
