Sohaib Athar Was Twitter Witness To US Attack On Bin Ladin

The Twitterverse and now blogosphere is, well, a buzz, or a Twitter (if you like) over the discovery that Sohaib Athar, who describes himself on Twitter @ReallyVirtual as a "IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops," provided a tweet-by-tweet account of the US Navy Seal raid that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden.

His tweets started April 28th in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with this one:

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

Then, Mr. Athar became annoyed with the helicopter, and let his Twitter followers know it.

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/

But a bit later, it was clear to Athar something big and "nasty" was up.

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

Then the "giant fly" was gone...

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

A Fast Action Assault

From the read of his Twitter tweets, the entire US attack lasted only a few minutes. The US Navy Seals got out as fast as they got in. But, at the time, Aohaib didn't know what was going on; he could only guess:

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

Mr. Athar tweets that the craft was not a spy plane, as it was "too noisy." There was also a copter crash, but from reports it wasn't American; President Obama said there were no Americans harmed in any way.

One thing's for sure about all this, "Abbottabad " certainly found a place on the map of pop culture, as has Sohaib Athar. Mr. Athar has been inundated with emails from the media, and from general people around the World.

ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar
For the people who are trying to email me to reach me, I simply can't filter out the notifications from the emails :-(

Stay tuned.