The shooter seems to know how to find a hole, case the hole, camp in the hole, come out of the hole for a snapshot, and retreat to the hole ... and then travel later.
This shooter knows where the holes are.
The holes are mapped and such maps can be acquired through the following agencies, to name just a few:
From CNews online --- Sunday, September 7, 1997
By KAREN SCHWARTZ -- AP Business Writer
Those who drive the world's rulers, corporate titans and celebrities are often trained to protect their clients from carjackers, kidnappers, terrorists -- and even celebrity photographers, who present a unique challenge.
On one hand, "You're a security guard and your mindset is attack, attack, attack," said Tony Scotti, who runs the Scotti School Of Protective Driving in Medford, Mass. "You don't want to treat these guys with cameras like they're the bad guys."
On the other hand, "What if one of the paparazzi isn't a paparazzi?" he asks.
A week after the car wreck that killed Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, investigators haven't yet determined whether responsibility rests primarily with Paul or with the paparazzi who pursued the car into a traffic tunnel that night.
Police sources have said Paul, who worked for the Al Fayed family, was drunk.
But many continue to blame the paparazzi. They are such a constant presence in the lives of the wealthy that chauffeurs trained in professional driving schools are specifically taught how to evade them.
In Scotti's three-day class, which costs $2,150, drivers learn to react if someone cuts them off, to take out other cars by ramming, and to escape from tight spots by spinning the car 180 degrees in a so-called bootlegger's turn.
In a situation with paparazzi, "I would take the car wide and swing back and forth so they cannot get alongside you," said Bob Bondurant, a former race-car driver who runs a school in Phoenix.
Those who have taken the course are amazed at reports that Paul was drunk and that he was driving at high speed.
"As a bodyguard, you would never allow whoever you're protecting to be put in danger, so you'd never drive if you're drunk and you'd never allow somebody to go that fast," said Chris Acker, a New York City police officer who received special driver training when he was with the Secret Service in 1982.
There are conflicting reports as to whether Paul had received such high-performance driver training. Some Fayed family bodyguards have taken the Scotti program, although not Paul, Scotti said.
Malta Martin, who is head of the corporate chauffeur and executive protection course at the Bondurant school, said she was once chased down the freeway by some guys who were hassling her.
"I knew enough to drive around the other vehicles, how to control the car properly," she recalls. She quickly scurried around to an exit and got off the freeway.
"Awareness is very important," she said. "If you are being pursued, then perhaps don't enter a narrow tunnel where the chances of something happening are higher."
In addition to squealing tires and ramming other cars, the courses offer a great deal of less exciting driver-training and even some classroom work.
"Statistically, the biggest threat for you and I isn't being shot by a disgruntled employee or being killed by a terrorist, it's being hurt or killed in a car accident," said Matt Croke, director of training at BSI Inc. in Summit Point, W.Va., which trains people from the State Department and military, as well as civilians.
BSI has taught more than 10,000 people in the past two decades, while Scotti has taught more than 25,000 people in the basic protective driving course, and another 400 in more advanced courses that deal with motorcades and attack recognition. More than 700 corporations, including 85 Fortune 100 companies, have sent their drivers to the course, Scotti said.
All Scotti courses end with the students evading their instructors in an imaginary scenario, like the one in which they must protect their client from the paparazzi or from a hitman armed with a paint gun.
The Bondurant school was the first to offer the course and first ran it about 25 years ago when an oil company requested special training. Over the years, more than 3,000 people have taken the course, Bondurant said.
"Mainly, students learn how to be in charge of and in control of the car and the people in the back seat," Bondurant said.
The driver "has to have a cool head, be alert and aware at all times," Bondurant said, "and you do not drink on the job."
Driving schools:
- Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, Phoenix --- (800) 842-7223 --- Offers a four-day executive protection and anti-kidnapping course for $2,975.
- BSI, Inc., Summit Point, W.Va. --- (304) 725-6512 --- Offers a three-and-a-half day course for $1,395.
- International Training Inc. in West Point, Va. --- (800) 604-4484 --- Operates customized courses in Virginia and Texas.
- San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in San Bernardino, Calif. --- (909)887-7550 --- Offers a five-day protection specialist course for $1,000.
- Scotti School Of Protective Driving, Medford, Mass. --- (800) 343-0046 --- Offers classes in Michigan, Peru and Switzerland.
A three-day protective driving course costs $2,150; a five-day executive protection class costs $1,850 and a three-day attack recognition class, which doesn't involve any driving, costs $875.
Many upper-muckety-mucks in mid-East-dom are surrounded by men who have gone through much more intensive training.
Again, they know where the holes are, the culverts and concrete drainage systems throughout our country ... where bad guys can travel yet about which, most "taxpayers" do not know anything.
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