Until last night, Twitter use @ReallyVirtual had fewer than 1,000 followers. Yesterday he was Tweeting about a strange event in his neighborhood in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Turns out he was unknowingly chronicling the undercover raid which killed Osama bin Laden, as it happened.
“ReallyVirtual”, who identifies himself as Sohaib Athar, says he’s an “IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.”
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Last night, a few hours after tweeting about a helicopter roaming around Abbottabad, he wrote:
“Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”
Athar’s tweets on the event started out like this: “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).”
“A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S” he wrote.
As the AP reports:
Throughout the battle, he related the rumors swirling through town: it was a training accident. Somebody was killed. The aircraft might be a drone. The army was conducting door-to-door searches in the surrounding area. The sound of an airplane could be heard overhead.
Check out his tweets here.
