An IT contractor named Sohaib Athar unknowingly tweeted the American assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Below is Athar’s tweet thread from the night of the attack. In order to make the text easier to understand, I reverse ordered the posts so they read from earliest to latest and I skipped some of the lesser related tweets by Sohaib Athar. You can find the thread in its entirety here.

Sohaib Athar

@ReallyVirtual Abbottabad Lahore Pakistan
An IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.
http://www.reallyvirtual.com

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

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

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
@m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too.

an3yy Hania Ahmed
by ReallyVirtual
OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine :(

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
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
@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.

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”

terminalxpk Terminal X
by ReallyVirtual
The Major also says no “missiles” were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad…

naqvi Munzir Naqvi
by ReallyVirtual
I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.

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

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
RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
and here come the mails from the mainstream media… *sigh*