Who tweeted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden?

An IT consultant is credited with live-tweeting the strike in Pakistan.

By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times

May 1, 2011, 11:56 p.m.

A tweeter who describes himself as "an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains" in Abbottabad, Pakistan, may have unwittingly covered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

At about 1 a.m. local time, Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) tweeted that a helicopter was flying above Abbottabad — "a rare event," he said.

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"Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/" he joked.

He then reported a "huge window-shaking bang" and said "I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S"

Hours later, news broke of Bin Laden's death.

"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.," he tweeted. "and here come the mails from the mainstream media... *sigh*"

alexandra.zavis@latimes.com

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ProudPrimate at 5:06 AM May 02, 2011

I agree with Russom that the unavailable body is what I expected. For my money, he died in December 2001. But I say, "What a great laugh on Bush and the conspirators!" Obama says to his inner circle, "We all know Osama is dead, been dead. We need political capital now as never before. Why not 'capture and kill him', 'bury him at sea', and claim the prize? Who is going to pipe up at this late date and say, 'No he was already dead!' They'd be hanging themselves."

Dirty pool? I don't think so. Just beating them at their own dirty game. Now we have a chance to win the real important battle: returning the SCOTUS from the plutocrats to hoi polloi where it belongs.

Three points from the top of the key!

MickRussom at 2:29 AM May 02, 2011

This is a lie. Osama Bin Laden (UBL/OBL) is not verified KIA. This Obama the trying to look like he is not incompetent. Obama is a liar and if Ossama's body doesnt show up for inspection here in the USA this whole "Ossama's dead" thing is a LIE. Obama, the enemy of truth, freedom, liberty, constitution and the USA. This whole "Osama bin Laden is dead" thing is simply corrupt unpopular un-American Obama pulling a rabbit out of his hat to try and combat his record breaking low-level popularity ratings.

This is just another ploy by the oligarchical collectivists, the banking cabal and the NWO globalists to put the bleating sheeple to sleep with something that cannot be refuted as they are destroying the body and the evidence.

This is a fraud and a sham. Habeas corpus. Where is the body. No body means no dead bin Laden.

itsmetherealyou at 1:24 AM May 02, 2011

Good thing Osama wasn't following this guy on twitter!

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