It was unable to operate freely from any of the nations bordering Israel.
Within minutes, earthquake monitoring centres around the world had raised the alarm and the nations bordering the Indian Ocean took no chances.
Without at least 20,000 foreign troops, Mr. Karzai says, Afghanistan will most likely remain a patchwork of ethnic, tribal and political fiefs, each dependent on arms and money from one or more of the nations bordering Afghanistan.
But Germany, further east and most closely connected to the nations bordering Russia, does even worse.
If actions speak louder than words, the nations bordering the Baltic Sea are starting to scream bloody murder about Russia.
The United States is optimistic, they said, that it has disabled terrorist operations that Al Qaeda was running from Yemen, the nation bordering Saudi Arabia that Mr. Nashiri and his associates had used as their base in recent months.
The nation borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo for most of its southern border, the coastal nation of Cameroon to its west, South Sudan to its east, and Chad to its north.
Sonando was arrested again on 11 October 2005 after reporting on Prime Minister Hun Sen's treaty with Vietnam settling the two nations' border dispute; the report included a discussion with a French-based expert who criticized Hun Sen's concessions.
By threatening military force, Iran focused new attention on the simmering dispute over how to carve up the resources of the Caspian among the five nations bordering the inland sea -- Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.
