Misadventures in Reporting

According to the London Times on -line, Imad Mugniyah was killed by the Israelis who placed a bomb in the headrest of his car, Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb: [HT: Robert Avrech]

Minutes later he was seated in his silver Mitsubishi Pajero in a nearby street when a deafening blast ripped the car apart and killed him instantly.

According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge.

The article goes on to describe his death in more detail, with some eye-witness testimony:

One witness said: “I held his head in my hands, kissed him farewell. His face was burnt but intact and he had received serious injuries to his abdomen.”

Far be it for me to disparage the perspicacity of the intrepid reporters of the Times, but doesn't it seem just a tiny bit unlikely that a headrest bomb could be so carefully constructed as to cause serious damage to the victim's abdomen but leave his head, the presumed target of immediate interest, intact?  Maybe its just my natural skepticism, but I would think the layers of editors about which the MSM is so proud, might have noticed the seeming anomaly. 

Of course, since the information about the headrest bomb came from "Israeli intelligence sources", perhaps it was just a bit more Israeli disinformation.  Now, apparently, the Israelis have magic bombs that can aim at one part of a terrorist and blow up another part two feet away!