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Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid
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.'”
This is good to know. Otherwise his tweet might have ended up on some conspiracy theorist sites with a "black helicopters" tag or something...
A very interesting point is that it is said one of the 4 choppers was hit by enemy fire which I haven't heard about yet. President Obama said "no Americans were injured" so I would assume it was only a minor hit.
On another topic, CNN just announced a few minutes ago that there is a DNA match confirming the body was indeed Osama. They also announced that the FBI has updated its most wanted list, it makes sense I guess...
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http://twitter.com/#!/ReallyVirtual/status/64783440226168832
Directly contradict how? The man says a helicopter, a big bang. How does that contradict anything?
Here's the Google Maps satellite photo of Abbottabad, Pakistan. I can't find his compound. Can you?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Abbottabad&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.854268,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Abbott%C4%81bad,+Abbottabad,+Khyber+Pakhtunkhwa,+Pakistan&ll=34.146769,73.209769&spn=0.0019,0.005493&t=h&z=18
Now we not only have MS shills, Apple shills, GOATSE shills, but also Fox news shills. When will it all end.
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But why would they take the body, promptly bury it at sea, then tell the world? I understand that they would want to minimize the impact in the islamic world by not defiling his body in any way which was recorded, but it seems like this would be something you show on television, that it's REALLY him. Who knows, maybe they made a deal with him and he's now in South America to live out his days in (even more) luxury. But that's the George Noory in me.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this. It took almost 10 years, trillions of dollars, the invasion of two countries (neither of which he was found in), and an untold number of lives lost to find a 6 foot 6 inch multi-millionaire (with diabetes!) living in a private luxury compound (in a well populated city) which was at least eight times larger then anything nearby. I don't think there is too much to celebrate here.
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
Osama had an iPhone and it kept track of his location. Good job, Steve!
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I thought I read somewhere that Osama was killed a week ago, not on Sunday. They were waiting for official confirmation before releasing the information that he was killed....
I think the confusion here is that the operation was authorized a week ago. It didn't happen immediately. I believe I saw/heard a report that there was a rehearsal done by the team before the actual op.
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I read about this dude, he's on vacation, "trying to get away from it all" and after all this breaks he's complaining that he can't get away from it all.
Dude, your problem is your idea of "getting away from it all" is warped, in that you're twittering every 30 minutes when you see a F-ing airplane. Give your cellphone a burial at sea, then chill on a lawn chair (they have those in pakistan, right?) with a religiously appropriate mood enhancing substance and enjoy the solitude.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
I'm sure there are plenty of creationists out there that will try to refute the big bang part.
Remember that the 24-hour news channels rarely fact-check anything, preferring instead to report "breaking news". This has the nasty side-effect of turning hearsay into well-reported "facts", which then stick around and confuse people.
No, you should be expected to:
A: learn to read
B: learn about time zones
C: learn how to take multiple witness account and correlate them together
D: understand that you're not the sharpest tool in the shed
Those tweets are not the only first hand witness accounts of the action taking place. Everything that I've read supports the US government version of events pretty closely. The differences only help to support the story. I mean, if everyone gave out the identical same version of events, I'd be very suspicious!!
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(Did you read my post?) No, I'm thinking that whatever money was spent on the Iraq war, can't be counted toward the cost of killing Bin Laden. MonsterTrimble tried to make it sounds like trillions of dollars were spent to kill Bin Laden. I have heard a lot of whackjob conspiracy theories and I have heard some very plausible explanations for why the Iraq war happened, but so far nobody has suggested that Iraq was invaded as part of Bush's brilliant round-about way of gathering intell about Bin Laden's address or guard-changing schedule.
Just my luck, it'll turn out to be true. Next month we'll read a story that someone in Pakistan knew where Bin Laden was and was willing to cough up the info. But instead of settling for the half-million dollar reward, he said he'd only reveal the coordinates if the US government could make his dream come true of running a profitable ice cream store in Bagdad. But Saddam Hussein hated ice cream and would never let it happen. After much negotiating, Bush reluctantly agreed to invade Iraq.
Some turmoil followed, but was eventually sorted out. The informant was finally able to enter Iraq in 2005 and open the store, but the economy was shit and the store didn't make a profit. After filing Chapter 7 in 2008, the informant tried again and opened a yogurt store and it worked and he made it into a good business. Then in October 2010 he got an idea to use the success of this yogurt business to subsidize the building of a new ice cream campaign. At first it didn't work, but then in mid-April he was going over the 1st quarter 2011 results and realized he made a slight profit on ice cream itself if you ignored the start up costs, and his accountant explained that he had to, since those were written off in 4th quarter 2010. So he called the White House to make good on the deal, got the runaround since the person who answered the phone thought it was a prank call when he asked for President Bush, but it eventually got ironed out and he spoke to President Obama on April 23 and gave him Bin Laden's address. The hit squad sprang into action.
That's believable, but is it true? Maybe, maybe not. If it is, then MonsterTrimble's claim that trillions of dollars were spent to kill Bin Laden will be validated and everyone can say I'm a damn fool for arguing with him. But I submit to you that we don't really have any evidence that Saddam Hussein hated ice cream. So how do you explain that?!
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