"Tell your honorable people, and journalists, to live in peace now — the people have now been rescued from the cruelty of this wild butcher."

Mullah Dadullah, the operational commander for the Taliban, has been killed.

Mullah Dadullah, an amputee, was recognizable in part from his missing left leg and thick black beard. He had been shot in the head and in the stomach, the governor said. His face and chest were bloodied. He wore traditional Afghan clothes and an ordinary shoe on his good leg.

ADDED: And check out the picture the NYT website has right next to its front-page teaser about the one-legged Dadullah:



That's a teaser for this article in the Style section about people like Sarah Reinertsen who present their disability as something cool:

Sarah Reinertsen, 31, an athlete who runs with a prosthetic leg, is a member of the hard-charging vanguard. She was a contestant on CBS’s “Amazing Race” last year (her team came in 7th of 12) and has no qualms about competing against the able-bodied.

“Believe me, I get a thrill when I do pass two-legged people,” she said.

But she said she never leaves the house without sunglasses.

“People always stare,” she said. “It’s part of human nature and it’s tough to be this animal in the zoo.”

But Ms. Reinertsen said people have stopped looking at disability as “total tragedy.” “People have changed a lot,” she said. “They ask, ‘Are you wearing one of those cool legs?’ ”