Apparently this tweeter live blogged the whole thing...

liberalmuse

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Mon May-02-11 12:31 AM
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Apparently this tweeter live blogged the whole thing...

http://twitter.com/#!/ReallyVirtual

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joshcryer

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Mon May-02-11 02:20 AM
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1. Nice find.

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leftstreet

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Mon May-02-11 02:23 AM
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2. Not really. If you read his tweets he heard helicopters and got tweets from others

He was hardly a witness

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joshcryer

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Mon May-02-11 02:25 AM
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3. He was at the minimum a witness to the sounds of the raid.

He heard loud explosions and helicopters.

He apparently resides in the same town the raid happened.

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leftstreet

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Mon May-02-11 02:27 AM
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4. Right. But he didn't see what happened

Anyone in the area probably heard the same things, saw helicopters, etc.

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joshcryer

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Mon May-02-11 02:41 AM
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7. Sure. Was anyone else live tweeting it?

It's a coincidence, he didn't know what was going on.

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JCMach1

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Mon May-02-11 02:38 AM
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5. Great find

Just blogged this...

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

11 hours ago
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Go away helicopter � before I take out my giant swatter :-/

11 hours ago
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S

11 hours ago
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar

@
@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani�

10 hours ago

http://usa2uae.com/2011/05/02/sohaid-athar-the-man-who-apparently-live-tweeted-the-operation-against-osama-bin-laden/

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leftstreet

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Mon May-02-11 02:40 AM
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6. This is no different than me hearing sirens in my neighborhood

I can confirm it, but don't know where they're at or if someone had an accident, got murdered, or what.

His more recents tweets were funny though.

Obama and Osama leave me alone!

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joshcryer

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Mon May-02-11 02:42 AM
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8. Yeah, would you live tweet sirens in your neighborhood?

No? But you might live tweet (assuming you even use twitter) a big explosion nearby.

And it could turn out to be something big.

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leftstreet

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Mon May-02-11 02:43 AM
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9. After a couple of beers, Tweeters will Tweet anything n/t

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joshcryer

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Mon May-02-11 02:44 AM
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10. Fair enough.

Would be interesting if you have evidence anyone else was tweeting this event, though. Otherwise he did, coincidentally, tweet about the raid.

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