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US 'buys town for terror drills'
BBC
| September 27 2004
The United States Department of Homeland Security
is buying an entire town for use in its anti-terror training, the New York
Times reports.
Playas, in the south-west state of New Mexico,
will be bought for $5m from the Phelps Dodge mining company, which built
it from scratch in the 1970s.
The town, once home to 1,000 people, currently has a population
of 50.
Emergency workers will use the site to simulate suicide
bombings, anthrax attacks and water-supply poisonings.
'Ghost town'
Although Playas has been in decline since a copper smelter
shut, the isolated town just north of the Mexican border is not a typical
ghost town.
In addition to 259 ranch-style homes, it features a six-lane
bowling alley, a rodeo ring, a helicopter pad, an airstrip, a bar, a shooting
range and a swimming pool.
A small local engineering school, the New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology, will be overseeing the project.
Vice-president Van Romero told the New York Times that
the town's remaining residents could be offered work on the project.
New Mexico Tech, as it is known, has trained more than
90,000 emergency workers since the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal
building in 1995.
It is also currently receiving $20m in grants from the
Department of Homeland Security for its antiterrorism programmes.
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