Monday
May022011
Man Live Tweets Osama Bin Laden's Slaying From Pakistan Via @ReallyVirtual
Sohaib Athar, a man who lives in Abbottabad Lahore Pakistan near Jalal Baba Auditorium, unknowingly live blogged the attack and slaying of Osama Bin Laden via Twitter.
The IT consultant -- who runs a blog called ReallyVirtual.com and tweets via @reallyvirtual -- thought he was "taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops," according to his Twitter profile, but that was clearly not the case.
According to his tweets, the attack started at 1 a.m. Pakistan time, when he noticed a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad, which he said was a "rare event."
He tweeted that he wished the helicopter would go away. Shortly thereafter, he felt a "huge window shaking bang."
Then, the 33-year-old father tweeted that there were two helicopters and that one had been shot down, which people were saying was not a Pakistani helicopter.
"Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad"
The, he tweeted: "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."
Then, he retweeted terminalxpk saying, "'A Major of the #Pakistan #Army's 19 FF, Platoon CO says incident at #Abbottabad where #helicopter crashed is accidental and not an 'attack'"
When his power failed, he did what any other social media geek would do ... he powered up his generator.
Morales to the story: Never underestimate the power of social media; IT consultants never sleep. #redbull
Check out his twitter feed (order: last to first):
According to his tweets, the attack started at 1 a.m. Pakistan time, when he noticed a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad, which he said was a "rare event."
He tweeted that he wished the helicopter would go away. Shortly thereafter, he felt a "huge window shaking bang."
Then, the 33-year-old father tweeted that there were two helicopters and that one had been shot down, which people were saying was not a Pakistani helicopter.
"Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad"
The, he tweeted: "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."
Then, he retweeted terminalxpk saying, "'A Major of the #Pakistan #Army's 19 FF, Platoon CO says incident at #Abbottabad where #helicopter crashed is accidental and not an 'attack'"
When his power failed, he did what any other social media geek would do ... he powered up his generator.
Morales to the story: Never underestimate the power of social media; IT consultants never sleep. #redbull
Check out his twitter feed (order: last to first):
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And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad...
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and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/
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terminalxpk Terminal X by ReallyVirtual: The Major also says no "missiles" were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan
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terminalxpk Terminal X by ReallyVirtual: A Major of the #Pakistan #Army's 19 FF, Platoon CO says incident at #Abbottabad where #helicopter crashed is accidental and not an "attack"
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Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they're saying it was >> http://bit.ly/ioGE6O
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Here's the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> http://on.fb.me/khjf34
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@smedica 'safer' is a relative term that has lost its meaning in Pakistan
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@smedica I live near Jalal Baba Auditorium
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@smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating - which part of Abbottabd are you in?
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@tahirakram very likely - but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was.
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@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.
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@wqs figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the must have the same instructions for PMA
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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.
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@tahirakram they're not saying anything
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@kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff
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@tahirakram yea. *hides his giant swatter*
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@raihak yep, the mad power cuts have reached abbottabad - 14 hours daily - luckily I have a generator AND a UPS at the coffee shop
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Since taliban (probably) don't have helicpoters, and since they're saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad
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@raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the 'being safe' strategy
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@raihak I try, man, I try
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han3yy Hania Ahmed by ReallyVirtual: OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine :(
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@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani...
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@m0hcin http://bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked !
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@m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too... the helicopter is gone too.
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A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S
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Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/
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Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
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