Captured on Twitter: Raid against Osama bin Laden - (Reuters) - In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding that he hoped it wasn't "the start of something nasty.
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- After liveblogging and speculating for several hours over what happened, it dawned on Athar and those following him that they were witnessing the end of a worldwide manhunt for the man held responsible for orchestrating the September 11, 2001 attacks. "I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected," said one of Athar's followers. Seven hours after Athar's first tweet, President Barack Obama announced bin Laden's death in an operation by U.S. forces where one helicopter was lost.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@kursed Well, there were at least two copters last night, I heard one but a friend heard two, for 15-20 minutes.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Report from a sweeper: A family also died in the crash, and one of the helicopter riders got away and is now being searched for.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@kursed True, but stranger things have happened. I just hope they don't find my giant helicopter swatter. Must hide it :-/
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@ahmedbilal @kursed Sadly. We should start learning how to spread believable stories and recreate a reality that suits us.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@kursed Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras - and got away
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@kursed What really happened doesn't matter if there is an official story behind it that 99.999% of the world would believe
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Report from a taxi driver: The army has cordoned off the crash area and is conducting door-to-door search in the surrounding
naqvi Munzir Naqvi
I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@raihak The day there is uninterrupted electricity in Lahore for a whole month, I will start packing my bags, until then, Abbottabad is home
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/
terminalxpk Terminal X
The Major also says no "missiles" were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan
terminalxpk Terminal X
A Major of the #Pakistan #Army's 19 FF, Platoon CO says incident at #Abbottabad where #helicopter crashed is accidental and not an "attack"
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they're saying it was >> http://bit.ly/ioGE6O
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Here's the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> http://on.fb.me/khjf34
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@smedica 'safer' is a relative term that has lost its meaning in Pakistan
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating - which part of Abbottabd are you in?
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@tahirakram very likely - but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@smedica people are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@wqs figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the must have the same instructions for PMA
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
The abbottabad helicopter/UFO was shot down near the Bilal Town area, and there's report of a flash. People saying it could be a drone.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@raihak yep, the mad power cuts have reached abbottabad - 14 hours daily - luckily I have a generator AND a UPS at the coffee shop
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation#abbottabad
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the 'being safe' strategy
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani...
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too... the helicopter is gone too.
ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S
