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The Guy Who Unknowingly 'Live-Blogged' the Bin Laden Raid

Posted by samzenpus on from the where-are-they-now dept.

netbuzz (955038) writes "Three years ago today, software consultant Sohaib Athar was working on his laptop at home in Pakistan when he tweeted: 'Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).' And then: 'A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope it's not the start of something nasty :-S.' It was for Osama bin Laden. Today Athar says, 'People do bring it up every now and then.'"

2 of 142 comments (clear)

  1. Anniversaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are not news. Especially not three year ones of some unimportant event that was barely news in the first place.

    Slashdot has gone down the toilet.

  2. Re:Obama is Osama! by quenda · · Score: 1, Troll

    You ignore the key difference in that Osama was so conservative (and charismatic), if he'd lived in America he'd probably have had his own talk show on Fox news.