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N.M. Town Has Become a Training Ground

Monday, May 07, 2007 4:41:28 PM
By TIM KORTE

A SWAT team member keeps watch on the exterior of a home during a training mission on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in Playas, N.M. Playas was once a real community, a place where people raised families, went to work and sent their kids off to school. But now, practically the entire town of more than 250 houses and other buildings is one big, realistic-looking training ground for U.S. law enforcement officers being schooled in anti-terrorism techniques. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)PLAYAS, N.M. (AP) - Inside an adobe house in New Mexico's remote southwestern corner, a terrorist cell has set up shop. Outside, a 12-member SWAT takes up positions, slaps an explosive on the door, blows it in, storms the place, and opens fire, the pop-pop-pop echoing through the desert.

Within moments, the terrorists are dead. The town is saved, at least for the day.

Because tomorrow, the same SWAT team will have its hands full again, this time confronting a suicide bomber.


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