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 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
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