It uses the ambush of a Mexican drug cartel convoy with a large security detail that was overwhelmed by careful planning by a rival. He then discusses security lessons drawn from the ambush.
For the article's Hot Stratfor Babe I decided to search for a female bodyguard. After conducting my usual extensive and in-depth search, I settled on Priyanka Chopra, who played Sonia in in the Bollywood film Drona.
In the film, which is based on a Hindu legend, Aditya is an orphan who grows up in England. He doesn't know it, but he is the son of Drona, a hero who got killed by an Eeevil Overlord. Aditya is fated to fight the Eeevil Overlord, not only to avenge his father, but also to protect mankind, preserve goodness, and etc., etc.
Sonia is the leader of a cult that thinks Drona is their messiah who captures Aditya and convinces him of his mission. She also accompanies him on his travels as he battles the Eeevil Overlord, acts as his bodyguard in the process and, perhaps most importantly, makes Priyanka's first big screen appearance in a bikini.
As has become the custom, after the article is a bonus video. The video features the title song to Drona, with shots of the hero looking heroic while a scantily clad Priyanka Chopra and her contingent of equally scantily clad Drona Cult girls dance and sing.
PROTECTIVE INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM AN AMBUSH IN MEXICO
By Scott Stewart, June 2, 2011
On the afternoon of May 27, a convoy transporting a large number of heavily armed gunmen was ambushed on Mexican Highway 15 near Ruiz, Nayarit state, on Mexico's Pacific coast. When authorities responded they found 28 dead gunmen and another four wounded, one of whom would later die, bringing the death toll to 29. This is a significant number of dead for one incident, even in Mexico.
According to Nayarit state Attorney General Oscar Herrera Lopez, the gunmen ambushed were members of Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel. Herrera noted that most of the victims were from Mexico's Gulf coast, but there were also some Guatemalans mixed into the group, including one of the wounded survivors. While Los Zetas are predominately based on the Gulf coast, they have been working to provide armed support to allied groups, such as the Cartel Pacifico Sur (CPS), a faction of the former Beltran Leyva Organization that is currently battling the Sinaloa Federation and other cartels for control of the lucrative smuggling routes along the Pacific coast. In much the same way, Sinaloa is working with the Gulf cartel to go after Los Zetas in Mexico's northeast while protecting and expanding its home turf. If the victims in the Ruiz ambush were Zetas, then the Sinaloa Federation was likely the organization that planned and executed this very successful ambush.
Photos from the scene show that the purported Zeta convoy consisted of several pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles (two of which were armored). The front right wheel on one of the armored vehicles, a Ford Expedition, had been completely blown off. With no evidence of a crater in the road indicating that the damage had been caused by a mine or improvised explosive device (IED), it would appear that the vehicle was struck and disabled by a well-placed shot from something like a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) or M72 LAW rocket, both of which have been seen in cartel arsenals. Photos also show at least one heavy-duty cattle-style truck with an open cargo compartment that appears to have been used as a troop transport. Many of the victims died in the vehicles they were traveling in, including a large group in the back of the cattle truck, indicating that they did not have time to react and dismount before being killed. [continued after jump]
