Here’s the guy who unwittingly <br> live-tweeted the raid <br>on Bin Laden

Tech Crunch ^ | May 2, 2011 | Mike Butcher

[Santiago de la Vega]

Yesterday Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was just “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan.

The IT contractor and graduate of Preston University also says he’s a ‘startup specialist’ on his LinkedIn profile, but now owns a coffee shop.

But today he will become known as the guy who, while live-tweeting a series of helicopter flypasts and explosion, unwittingly covered the US forces helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. And he knows it. Here’s a selection of his Tweets:

[Update: it looks like @m0hcin was there too, read on for more]

[Santiago de la Vega]

My sources tell me that Athar didn't hear the stealth helicopters, but rather the Chinook sent in to rescue ST6 when their quiet chopper went down.

From the timeline, it's clear that the stealth Blackhawks were so quiet that Athar didn't hear them, a vindication for the stealth program.

Only the noise from the big twin rotor aircraft was heard as it swooped in to save the Seals and their comrades.

[bigbob]

I don’t see why this is considered newsworthy by the media. Some guy posting wild guess about something going on in the night that adds nothing to the story other than maybe what you suggest. I guess it’s more interesting than what Charlie Sheen snorted for breakfast...

[ken21]

lib tards do not want to see the amrerican military and its

technology win.

[DouglasKC]

This sounds almost to me like Obama got punked. I think a plausible theory is that he was told that he had the green light in Pakistan by Pakistan officials to go in and Osama. They did and were ambushed. No body. No pictures. The mission may have been a failure. Remember Carter’s Iran hostage rescue debacle? Obama couldn’t have that hanging over his head...hence how long it took to cook up a story and why the story has shifted so much.