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1 | Pakistan: Live-Tweeting Osama Bin Laden's Death from Abbottabad | |
2 | This post is part of our special coverage The Death of Osama Bin Laden. | |
3 | Saudi terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden's life was snuffed out when a CIA-led team attacked a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. | |
4 | One Twitter user, Sohaib Athar, who tweets as @ReallyVirtual, reportedly tweeted the raid, and his reactions so far. | |
5 | Athar describes himself as “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.” | |
6 | Here is his timeline: | |
7 | @ReallyVirtual: Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). | |
8 | @ReallyVirtual: Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/ | |
9 | @ReallyVirtual: A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. | |
10 | I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S | |
11 | @ReallyVirtual: @m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too. | |
12 | @ReallyVirtual: @m0hcin http://bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked ! | |
13 | @ReallyVirtual: @m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani… | |
14 | @han3yy: OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine :( | Pakistan: Fitantarana mivantana an-tsiokantsera ny fahafatesan'i Osama bin Laden tany Abbottabad |
15 | @ReallyVirtual: Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not “ours”, so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad | |
16 | @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 | |
17 | @ReallyVirtual: The abbottabad helicopter/UFO was shot down near the Bilal Town area, and there's report of a flash. | |
18 | People saying it could be a drone. @ReallyVirtual: @smedica people are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. | Tankina hatreo ny fiainan'ilay atidohan'ny fampihorohoroana Saodiana Osama bin Laden raha nanafika fanorenana marolafy iray tany Abbottabad, Pakistan ny ekipa iray notarihan'ny sampam-pitsikilovana Amerikana CIA. |
19 | I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful. | |
20 | @ReallyVirtual: @tahirakram very likely - but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was. | |
21 | @ReallyVirtual: @smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating - which part of Abbottabd are you in? | |
22 | @ReallyVirtual: Here's the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> http://on.fb.me/khjf34 | |
23 | @ReallyVirtual: Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they're saying it was >> http://bit.ly/ioGE6O | |
24 | @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” | |
25 | @terminalxpk: The Major also says no “missiles” were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan | |
26 | @ReallyVirtual: and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/ | |
27 | @ReallyVirtual: And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad… @ReallyVirtual: Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today | Mpisera Twitter iray, Sohaib Athar, izay misioka antsera amin'ny anarana @ReallyVirtual, no mitantara antsiokantsera ny fanafihana, sy ny fihetsehampony ihany koa. |
28 | @naqvi: I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected. | |
29 | @ReallyVirtual: Report from a taxi driver: The army has cordoned off the crash area and is conducting door-to-door search in the surrounding | |
30 | @ReallyVirtual: @kursed What really happened doesn't matter if there is an official story behind it that 99. | |
31 | 999% of the world would believe | |
32 | @ReallyVirtual: @kursed Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras - and got away | |
33 | @ReallyVirtual: Report from a sweeper: A family also died in the crash, and one of the helicopter riders got away and is now being searched for. | |
34 | @ReallyVirtual: @kursed Well, there were at least two copters last night, I heard one but a friend heard two, for 15-20 minutes. | |
35 | @ReallyVirtual: RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. | |
36 | : ISI has confirmed it < < Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/ | |
37 | @ReallyVirtual: I guess I should unsubscribe from the #abbottabad search on twitter before it kills my machine. Leave Abbottabad alone, Osama and Obama… | Athar moa dia milazalaza ny tenany ho “mpanolotsaina amin'ny kajimirindra izay miala sasatra amin'ny hazakazaky [ny fiainana] amin'ny fiafenana eny an-tendrombohitra miaraka amin'ny solosaina findainy.” |
38 | @ReallyVirtual: Damn its getting hard to RT some funny Abbottabad tweets, they're scrolling so fast :-( | |
39 | @ReallyVirtual: Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. | |
40 | @ReallyVirtual: and here come the mails from the mainstream media… *sigh* | |
41 | @ReallyVirtual: For the curious, here is life in abbottabad two minutes ago http://twitpic.com/4s8nfq | |
42 | Life in Abbottabad | Toy izao ny fitantarany: |
43 | @ReallyVirtual: The shopping plaza I'm in is almost entirely closed, probably mainly because the traffic is blocked in a few places | |
44 | @ReallyVirtual: And the big question is - now that OBL does not live in Abbottabad, is it open to terrorist attacks too? | |
45 | @DVNJr: Read @ReallyVirtual's stream. | |
46 | He unwittingly tweeted the helicopters' raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. | |
47 | @CClonts: He tweeted this live! | |
48 | Tweets begin at 9-hour indicator. | |
49 | RT @ReallyVirtual: Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). | |