Cartel Shooting at Falcon Lake a Case of Mistaken Identity?

STRATFOR sources say the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. tourist David Hartley on Falcon Lake, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, by suspected elements of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization may have been a case of mistaken identity. The truck Hartley and his wife used to put their Jet Skis in the water at the lake had Tamaulipas state plates, and the Hartleys drove the Jet Skis to the Old Guerrero area of the lake, a known battleground in the ongoing war between the Los Zetas and Gulf cartels. Given the couple's license plate and method and direction of travel, it is possible that Zetas scouts identified them as a Gulf Cartel surveillance team.