LGF has the story about Iranian president Ahmadinejad's motorcade coming under fire in rural Baluchistan province of Iran. A driver was killed and another wounded, both bodyguards. Some speculate the target was probably Ahmadinejad himself.
This is an interesting area. In Laurie Mylroie's book "The War Against America" she chronicled the forgotten history of Baluchistan, and postulated they sided with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. They are largely Sunni Muslim.
Baluchistan was also the home country of two notorious figures in the War on Terror, Ramzi Yousef and his reputed Uncle KSM, World Trade Center bomber/conspirators numbers one and two.
I'll admit to once harboring thoughts that Iran was in bed with elements of al Qaeda, but now I'm not so sure. The Counterterrorism Blog has an excellent report on this topic, featuring a 1995 interview with AQ number two Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he seems to debunk the Iran-AQ connection and suggests the Iranians are basically Shiite dogs who like to fabricate their support for Islamic fundamentalism. That seems to offer one plausible explanation for Ahmadinejad's recent crackpot rhetoric and the alleged attempt on his life down there.
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