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Man Inadvertently Live Tweets Osama Bin Laden Raid
An IT consultant who tried to take a break from the rat race by visiting the city of Abbottabad in Northern Pakistan, has just been given a ringside seat to one of the biggest counter-terrorism events in modern history: the death of Osama bin Laden. It was about 1am local time or 12 hours ago, when world-weary Sohaib Athar tweeted under the handle @ReallyVirtual: “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event),” and “Go away helicopter – before I take out my giant swatter.”