Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri wasn't blown up at his Kabul residence over the weekend -- he was apparently butchered on his balcony with the blades of a "flying Ginsu," a nickname for a special type of Hellfire missile used in highly-targeted strikes.
Because a conventional explosive warhead would have risked killing nearby civilians, the CIA is believed to have used the little-known R9X, which deploys six long blades seconds before impact and slices its victim into bloody chunks.
It was a poetically fitting end for a former surgeon who became one of the principal architects of 9/11.