“The Ginsu, also sometimes referred to as the Ninja bomb, is designed to plunge more than 100 pounds of metal through the tops of cars and buildings to kill its target without harming individuals and property close by. Instead of exploding, it has telescoping knives that eject out of its nose at the moment of impact,” is how the Wall Street Journal describes means of the very messy fate that met Iranian proxy group Kataib Hezbollah’s leader Abu Baqr al-Saadi in Baghdad last week in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three American troops on a base in Jordan last month.
It’s a good paragraph in media res, but a little more background: The weapon, which was also used to end, among others, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2022, is a standard Hellfire missile with the explodey parts removed as to minimize collateral damage – important because al-Saadi knew he was a marked man and is believed to have purposely traveled through crowded areas knowing there would be backlash if he was blown up by standard munitions. That’s why America (almost literally) brought a knife to a gunfight, turning the fucker and his entourage into applesauce while hurting only the feelings of the Shiite locals pissed their terrorist hero was martyred so gruesomely.