A United States defence reconnaissance team flew out of Medan yesterday to the stricken west coast town of Meulaboh as the US prepared to deliver a massive aid effort to Indonesia. The US is planning to base its efforts at Meulaboh, which was almost at the epicentre of Sunday's quake and was then swamped by two giant waves. About 15,000 people are thought to have died and 80 per cent of the infrastructure was destroyed. "We will go where the Indonesian Government wants us to go," a US embassy spokesman, Tim Gerhardson, said. "We are conscious of not telling them...