31.   The United States and the Soviet Union, after all, never shared a border.

32.   They toured temporary military facilities housing thousands of U.S. soldiers, and visited Kyrgyzstan, which is also north of Afghanistan and shares a border with China and Russia.

33.   Three of the five Central Asian countries share borders with Afghanistan.

34.   Turkmenistan, which like Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan, has offered to host relief missions.

35.   Turkey shares a border with northern Iraq and has its own large Kurdish minority.

36.   Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan and has backed the campaign of an ethnic Uzbek warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum, against the Taliban.

37.   Violent crime has been well-known to American authorities for years in Guatemala, a Central American republic that shares a border with Mexico.

38.   What makes the conflict so important to Washington policy-makers is the strategic importance of Azerbaijan, which shares borders with Iran on the south and Russia on the north.

39.   West Virginia shares no border with Canada or Mexico, nor is it considered a likely target of terrorist attack.

40.   Yugoslavia, after all, shares no border with Russia and was not even a reliably pro-Moscow ally during the days of Soviet empire.