Top-secret raid revealed on Twitter blog
The top secret raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound was inadvertently revealed to the world in a Twitter blog.
Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant living in Abbottabad, posted regular updates of helicopters swarming overhead, before writing: “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”
Mr Athar, believed to be living near bin Laden’s compound, wrote his first tweet at about 9pm on Sunday, when he noticed a helicopter. He then wrote: “A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope it’s not the start of something nasty.”
He later added: “Since Taliban (probably) don’t have helicopters, and since they’re saying it was not ‘ours’, so must be a complicated situation.”