Musharraf frankly acknowledged that remnants of al Qaeda remain hidden in the mountainous border region.
The RDS method has undergone several improvements (Heckathorn [2002], [2007]; [Salganik and Heckathorn 2004]) and is now especially suited to sampling, analyzing, and studying sparse and hidden populations with unclear borders and scales, and anonymous identities (Zhao and Pedersen [2007]).
Thousands of Pakistani soldiers have been deployed on mountain peaks and in hidden valleys along the Afghan border in recent days in a bid to cut off escape routes for Osama bin Laden and his fighters from the remote enclave of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan military officials said today.
SAN ANTONIO -- Lawyer Ernesto Gutierrez fled Matamoros, Mexico, to the U.S. last year after the much-feared Los Zetas enforcement wing of the Gulf Cartel kidnapped and tortured him in one of their many hidden death houses along the border.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that there are around 400 cases a year in the United States; most occur in travelers who, like our patient, cross our borders carrying a hidden souvenir.
Anatomically, the medial hidden zone is an area bordered laterally by the pedicle, ventrally by the dorsal part of the vertebral body and covered dorsally by the pars interarticularis of the hemilamina (Fig. 1A).
I traded the horse for a jeep with a secret compartment, in which I got [the drugs] past border crossings," says Afran. "Hidden compartments are getting old fashioned," says a member of the border police when I ask.
Hidden away in an industrial estate, bordering a slightly down-at-heel area of south London, is a collection of non-descript industrial units surrounding a small cul-de-sac.
The report also cites increasingly sophisticated techniques, which include dissolving the drug in solvents to smuggle it across the border disguised as flavoured drinks or hidden in windshield wiper reservoirs.
Hidden away not far from the city's border, they now serve as a nature reserve where more than 60 bird species have been identified and wild flowers such as harebell and milkwort thrive.
