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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.'"

5 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:Remember when Osama got iced? by arbiter1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    remember the other osama taking 100% credit it for.

  3. 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.

  4. Joke's on us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    bin Laden has his 72 Virgins and we're stuck with O-bummer...

  5. Re:All these Traitors you have by sjwt · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bin Laden, Saddam, Qadaffi were happily living a life at the top of corporate america, just sitting quite on the dirt they could spill if they wanted to then america goes and kills them to keep em quit!!

    are you fucking nuts? Speaking inconvenient things about the west was about all these guys did.

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