Bin Laden dead
Started by TAP, May 01 2011 09:55 PM
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 07:27 AM
Why, I thought he'd been dead for years.
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 09:00 AM
CIA warning to brace for revenge.
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 09:46 AM
'I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it'
Computer programmer unwittingly tweets description of operation which killed al-Qaida leader
computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town early Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to Twitter.
With his tweets, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual), who moved to Abbottabad to escape the big city,inadvertently recorded the end of a worldwide manhunt for the man held responsible for orchestrating the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," he tweeted.
Athar, a resident of the town where Osama bin Laden was holed up, thought the helicopter flying overhead was unusual enough to post it on his Twitter account.
That first tweet was innocuous: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."
When he heard a loud bang that shook his windows, he wrote that he hoped "its not the start of something nasty."
The noise alarmed Athar, who had moved to the upscale area of Abbottabad to get away from city life after his wife and child were badly injured in a car accident in the sprawling city of Lahore, according to his blog in July.
As the operation to kill bin Laden unfolded, Athar liveblogged what he was hearing in real time.
He questioned whose helicopters might be flying overhead. "The few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani," he tweeted.
Throughout the battle, he related the rumors swirling through town: it was a training accident. Somebody was killed. The aircraft might be a drone. The army was conducting door-to-door searches in the surrounding area. The sound of an airplane could be heard overhead.
Athar then said one of the aircraft appeared to have been shot down. Two more helicopters rushed in, he reported, and gunfire and explosions rocked the air above the town.
Soon Athar's tweets earned him 14,000 new followers as he unwittingly described the U.S. operation to kill one of the world's most wanted militants.
After liveblogging and speculating for several hours over what happened, it dawned on Athar and those following him that they were witnessing bin Laden's final moments.
"I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected," said one of Athar's followers.
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Computer programmer unwittingly tweets description of operation which killed al-Qaida leader
computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town early Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to Twitter.
With his tweets, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual), who moved to Abbottabad to escape the big city,inadvertently recorded the end of a worldwide manhunt for the man held responsible for orchestrating the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," he tweeted.
Athar, a resident of the town where Osama bin Laden was holed up, thought the helicopter flying overhead was unusual enough to post it on his Twitter account.
That first tweet was innocuous: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."
When he heard a loud bang that shook his windows, he wrote that he hoped "its not the start of something nasty."
The noise alarmed Athar, who had moved to the upscale area of Abbottabad to get away from city life after his wife and child were badly injured in a car accident in the sprawling city of Lahore, according to his blog in July.
As the operation to kill bin Laden unfolded, Athar liveblogged what he was hearing in real time.
He questioned whose helicopters might be flying overhead. "The few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani," he tweeted.
Throughout the battle, he related the rumors swirling through town: it was a training accident. Somebody was killed. The aircraft might be a drone. The army was conducting door-to-door searches in the surrounding area. The sound of an airplane could be heard overhead.
Athar then said one of the aircraft appeared to have been shot down. Two more helicopters rushed in, he reported, and gunfire and explosions rocked the air above the town.
Soon Athar's tweets earned him 14,000 new followers as he unwittingly described the U.S. operation to kill one of the world's most wanted militants.
After liveblogging and speculating for several hours over what happened, it dawned on Athar and those following him that they were witnessing bin Laden's final moments.
"I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected," said one of Athar's followers.
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Sister burn the temple
And stand beneath the moon
The sound of the ocean is dead
It's just the echo of the blood in your head
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 09:49 AM
Fake:
Of course, some will see this obvious fake (probably made my some 12 year old kid before running off to school this morning) as evidence that the entire event did not happen.
Of course, some will see this obvious fake (probably made my some 12 year old kid before running off to school this morning) as evidence that the entire event did not happen.
Sister burn the temple
And stand beneath the moon
The sound of the ocean is dead
It's just the echo of the blood in your head
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 09:56 AM
Good timing in terms of Obama's reelection campaign.
Whatever, some guy is just going to take over bin Laden's position, there's always someone else out there waiting in the wings.
P.S. Why the burial at sea?
How many times have I told you not to play with the dirty money??
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 11:32 AM
P.S. Why the burial at sea?
I thought it was so any burial site on land or even ashes couldn't be used for any sort of 'shrine' purposes.
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 01:12 PM
"It was like I was in high school again, but fatter."
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 05:55 PM
Show me your dragon magic
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