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Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-seeing-twitter-eye dept.

Sohaib Athar, a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual, had no idea the helicopters he was complaining about on twitter were part of the top secret mission that killed Osama bin Laden Sunday night. 10 hours before bin Laden's death was announced Athar posted: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).” From the article: "During the raid, Athar speculates that he was two or three kilometers away from the shooting that took place. Once news broke that bin Laden had been killed in Abbottabad, Athar tweeted, 'Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.'”

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  1. Re:This is good to know by moco · · Score: 5, Funny

    one of the 4 choppers was hit by enemy fire

    sources said that it was hit by a giant swatter

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  2. Re:I can't find it by mayko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awww... No street view?

  3. Re:I can't find it by milgram · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why didn't we just search Google for his location? It is even marked! ;)

  4. Re:This is good to know by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Marines were only capable of grunts.

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  5. Re:I can't find it by guruevi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US Military went over it's bandwidth cap with AT&T and was confined to 56k for all their web traffic.

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