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...week course, the 24 students will have fired more than 30,000 bullets. Watching Captain Ardiansyah Daulay, a 28-year-old trainee who is pumping hundreds of practice rounds out of a shiny new 9-mm Glock, Jake Wohlman, the American regional-security officer overseeing the counterterrorism project, observes, "It's all about repetition. When they're finished, these guys will be the new ?lite...
...some 50 kilometers south of Jakarta, where an academy belonging to the national police once stood. The four-hectare site features a "shoot house" for simulated hostage-taking situations, a breaching area to practice setting door charges, and a firing range. "We've never seen facilities like these," says Ardiansyah, who was recruited for Task Force 88 from the police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob as it's known in Indonesia. By the end of 2005, another $12 million will have gone toward forging a team of 400 Indonesian investigators, explosives experts and snipers, armed with high-end American weaponry, including...
...recruits are among the best they have ever trained anywhere. "These guys are very motivated, willing to learn and pick up things quickly," says Chris Armand, an ex-Marine. Once Task Force 88 is fully operational, similar programs are slated to begin in Colombia and Pakistan. For trainee Ardiansyah, the job is clear: "Disable the terrorists before they hurt more people...
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