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Mon, May 02 2011 00:48:24

The Death Of Osama Bin Laden, Live Tweeted

Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) ended up live tweeting the raid that killed Osama bin Laden without realizing it. Here are the relevant tweets, as the raid unfolded (along with some of his retweets that lend to the story). You'll find his account here http://twitter.com/reallyvirtual

  1. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
    Sun, May 01 2011 12:58:24
  2. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:05:31
  3. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:09:10
  4. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too... the helicopter is gone too.
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:44:48
  5. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @m0hcin bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked !
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:46:39
  6. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani...
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:48:14
  7. han3yy
    han3yy@han3yy
    OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine :(
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:45:15
  8. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the 'being safe' strategy
    Sun, May 01 2011 13:57:35
  9. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:02:08
  10. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:04:40
  11. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    The abbottabad helicopter/UFO was shot down near the Bilal Town area, and there's report of a flash. People saying it could be a drone.
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:10:32
  12. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @smedica people are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful.
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:15:15
  13. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @tahirakram very likely - but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was.
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:16:01
  14. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating - which part of Abbottabd are you in?
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:20:07
  15. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @smedica I live near Jalal Baba Auditorium
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:23:26
  16. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Here's the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> on.fb.me/khjf34
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:34:46
  17. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they're saying it was >> bit.ly/ioGE6O
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:43:55
  18. terminalxpk
    terminalxpk@terminalxpk
    A Major of the #Pakistan #Army's 19 FF, Platoon CO says incident at #Abbottabad where #helicopter crashed is accidental and not an "attack"
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:57:03
  19. terminalxpk
    terminalxpk@terminalxpk
    The Major also says no "missiles" were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan
    Sun, May 01 2011 14:57:45
  20. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad...
    Sun, May 01 2011 15:39:30
  21. ibi2010
    ibi2010@ibi2010
    1 dead and 1 injured in Abbottabad for heli crashed
    Sun, May 01 2011 15:57:24
  22. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today
    Sun, May 01 2011 20:00:35
  23. naqvi
    naqvi@naqvi
    I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.
    Sun, May 01 2011 19:45:41
  24. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    Report from a taxi driver: The army has cordoned off the crash area and is conducting door-to-door search in the surrounding
    Sun, May 01 2011 20:02:58
  25. ReallyVirtual
    ReallyVirtual@ReallyVirtual
    @kursed Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras - and got away
    Sun, May 01 2011 20:10:45

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