A Twitter user in Pakistan was a bit put out by the noisy raids taking place near him in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
It turns out Sohain Athar, aka @reallyvirtual , was livetweeting the raid that resulted in the death of September 11th mastermind Osama bin Laden. Athar’s tweets were posted in chronological order by Mediaite , and are pasted below. Later in the evening, Athar became increasingly irritated at the growing worldwide interest in his tweet-witness account, but the position in which Athar finds himself is interesting. Generally social media witnessing has been through direct and intentional involvement- Athar just wanted the helicopters to STFU and had no idea he was going to become a small historical footnote via Twitter.
From @reallyvirtual (with others)via Mediaite:
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
Go away helicopter – before I take out my giant swatter :-/
A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S
@m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too.
@m0hcin http://bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked !
@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani…
han3yy Hania Ahmed by ReallyVirtual OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine ?
@ raihak I try, man, I try (in reply to entreaty to “be safe!”)
@ raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the ‘being safe’ strategy
Since taliban (probably) don’t have helicpoters, and since they’re saying it was not “ours”, so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad
@ raihak yep, the mad power cuts have reached abbottabad – 14 hours daily – luckily I have a generator AND a UPS at the coffee shop
@ tahirakram yea. *hides his giant swatter*
@ kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff
@ tahirakram they’re not saying anything
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.
@ wqs figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the must have the same instructions for PMA
@ 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.
@ tahirakram very likely – but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was.
@ smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating – which part of Abbottabd are you in?
@ smedica I live near Jalal Baba Auditorium
@ smedica ’safer’ is a relative term that has lost its meaning in Pakistan
Here’s the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> http://on.fb.me/khjf34
Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they’re saying it was >>
and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/
And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad…
@ raihak The day there is uninterrupted electricity in Lahore for a whole month, I will start packing my bags, until then, Abbottabad is home
1 dead and 1 injured in Abbottabad for heli crashed
Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today naqvi rt by ReallyVirtual I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.
