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Guy Tweets As Osama Is Killed From Coffee Shop Next To Compound (Had No Idea)
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Posted on 05/01/2011 11:07:31 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

» Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @sabahat24 Irony follows me everywhere I go :-/ 2 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @bweixlmann Thanks for the concern, I'm alive so far :-) 4 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @saidation People who dream about twitter follower counts need a shrink, seriously 6 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar And the big question is - now that OBL does not live in Abbottabad, is it open to terrorist attacks too? 7 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar The shopping plaza I'm in is almost entirely closed, probably mainly because the traffic is blocked in a few places 9 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Uh oh, time to log out of Skype, this is insane 11 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar For the curious, here is life in abbottabad two minutes ago http://twitpic.com/4s8nfq 17 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @cszrom The area is offlimits to everyone - and I have other commitments... #binladen 20 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Ok, I give up. I can't read all the @ mentions so I'll stop trying. 23 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @FauziaBurke neither is OBL. lol 24 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @solomonchik too fast to count or care... 26 minutes ago » Saad Hussain saadhussain Saad Hussain by ReallyVirtual ABBOTTABAD IS TRENDING. Who wouldve thought. 39 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @bunduboots A *tiny* coffee shop , that I set up because I couldn't find any real coffee here, but you're welcome to visit #Abbotabad #win 44 minutes ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar At least the power is back... two shots of robusta is what I need now 55 minutes ago » Steve Farnham stevofarnham Steve Farnham by ReallyVirtual Abbottabad instantly becomes to absolute coolest word to pronounce 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @ahmedbilal not really... 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @ahmedbilal I need to find a large rock first, before the cameras arrive, lol 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Time to turn on the generator 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar oh I forgot, one needs electricity to make coffee, which, we don't have right now in Abbottabad. :-/ 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @ahmedbilal lol @ dead = very puny 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @MahaRafiAtal lol not just you, and nothing to be sorry about (I think) :-) I guess I'll go drink a couple of espresso shots to keep me up 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar and here come the mails from the mainstream media... *sigh* 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar I need to sleep, but Osama had to pick this day to die :-/ 1 hour ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Damn its getting hard to RT some funny Abbottabad tweets, they're scrolling so fast :-( 2 hours ago » Chris Hoy Poy kryanth Chris Hoy Poy by ReallyVirtual how long before the "Call of Duty : Abbottabad, Pakistan" expansion hits the stores? 2 hours ago » Bradley Burgess BradleyK8Olsen Bradley Burgess by ReallyVirtual Abbottabad just became a sexy new spring break destination. 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @harisn we are both right outside Islamabad :-) 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar I guess I should unsubscribe from the #abbottabad search on twitter before it kills my machine. Leave Abbottabad alone, Osama and Obama... 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kursed so, not that hard anymore I guess? 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Wondering what would be the right music to play in the coffee shop today... 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/ 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar I guess Abbottabad is going to get as crowded as the Lahore that I left behind for some peace and quiet. *sigh* 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kursed I think I should take out my big blower to blow the fog of war away and see the clearer picture. 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar 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. 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Report from a sweeper: A family also died in the crash, and one of the helicopter riders got away and is now being searched for. 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kursed True, but stranger things have happened. I just hope they don't find my giant helicopter swatter. Must hide it :-/ 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @ahmedbilal @kursed Sadly. We should start learning how to spread believable stories and recreate a reality that suits us. 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kursed Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras - and got away 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kursed What really happened doesn't matter if there is an official story behind it that 99.999% of the world would believe 2 hours ago » Sohaib Athar 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 2 hours ago » Munzir Naqvi naqvi Munzir Naqvi by ReallyVirtual I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected. 3 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today 2 hours ago » Ibrar Ali ibi2010 Ibrar Ali by ReallyVirtual 1 dead and 1 injured in Abbottabad for heli crashed 7 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @raihak The day there is uninterrupted electricity in Lahore for a whole month, I will start packing my bags, until then, Abbottabad is home 6 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad... 7 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/ 7 hours ago » Terminal X terminalxpk Terminal X by ReallyVirtual The Major also says no "missiles" were fired and all such exaggerated reports are nothing but rumours #Pakistan 7 hours ago » Terminal X terminalxpk Terminal X 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" 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they're saying it was >> http://bit.ly/ioGE6O 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Here's the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people >>> http://on.fb.me/khjf34 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @smedica 'safer' is a relative term that has lost its meaning in Pakistan 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @smedica I live near Jalal Baba Auditorium 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating - which part of Abbottabd are you in? 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @tahirakram very likely - but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was. 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar 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. 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @wqs figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the must have the same instructions for PMA 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar 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. 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @tahirakram they're not saying anything 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @tahirakram yea. *hides his giant swatter* 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @raihak yep, the mad power cuts have reached abbottabad - 14 hours daily - luckily I have a generator AND a UPS at the coffee shop 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar 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 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the 'being safe' strategy 8 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @raihak I try, man, I try 9 hours ago » Hania Ahmed han3yy Hania Ahmed by ReallyVirtual OMG :S Bomb Blasts in Abbottabad.. I hope everyone is fine :( 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani... 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @m0hcin http://bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked ! 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too... the helicopter is gone too. 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/ 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). 9 hours ago » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar 18 hours per day is not loadshedding, it is a load of bullshit :-( 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Why are the Pakistani subjects so happy about seriously, our rulers take us through what comes after a 'royal wedding' every other day ... 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Abbottabad had power for 6/24 hours or so today, still waiting for the power brokers to have pity on us :-\ 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @aem76us what is this 1947 which you speak of? 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @raihak I am following the whole jungle actually 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar @ @sharjeelq I am sure the answer lies in a hastily clicked 'I agree' TOS button :-) 28 Apr » Sohaib Athar ReallyVirtual Sohaib Athar Why are the pakistani twerps talking about a royal wedding? Is it HRH papa zardari, or baby Bhutto who is getting married? * confused * 28 Apr


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KEYWORDS: newmedia; operationgeronimo; twitter; whatthedeuce
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To: My Favorite Headache

thanks.


41 posted on 05/02/2011 1:33:42 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: dfwgator

I´d say the live reports of the heli crash gives us a very certain timeline for the attack. I.e. it all went down hours ago.


42 posted on 05/02/2011 2:02:41 AM PDT by globelamp
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To: newzjunkey
That picture is a fake from last November.
So, where’s the Death Certificate, then? ;-)
43 posted on 05/02/2011 2:30:19 AM PDT by cartan
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To: My Favorite Headache

He was killed from a coffee shop?


44 posted on 05/02/2011 2:58:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: My Favorite Headache

WORD OF WARNING:

Don’t go to that dude Really Virtual’s website. It has viruses and trojans.

The twitter site is obviously okay (because it is run by twitter) but that dude’s personal website should be avoided like the plague.


45 posted on 05/02/2011 3:59:36 AM PDT by JosephSmithNAW
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To: JosephSmithNAW

Pakistani coding???

Coming up next. . . D.B. Cooper, Jimmy Hoffa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, all found ALIVE AND WELL and living in a suburb of Long Island.


46 posted on 05/02/2011 4:20:02 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Dunno what coding it is LOL but it certainly is nasty. I saw the link and was just curious about the guy. So I clicked it. My mistake.

Perhaps its not intentional on the guy’s part. Some of these people run their website from their home computer or some really crappy web hosting company.

Whatever the reason, that site appears to be loaded with creepy crawly cyber vermin


47 posted on 05/02/2011 4:26:41 AM PDT by JosephSmithNAW
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To: JosephSmithNAW
I didn't mean to link to that website, the guy on Twitter mentions his web server was hacked and is full of trojans, so who knows.

Another tweeter feed near the Osama compound:

Text follow smedica to 40404 in the United States
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@ Near PMA road, and I also heard the first blast at around 12.35 am, right now I'm hearing sirens. Where do you live?
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2.10.04

48 posted on 05/02/2011 5:14:46 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander

Not pointing fingers at all here :). Just trying to alert curious and stupid people like myself not to click on the personal website link.

Once again for those that are not well informed about this. The twitter page itself is just fine. Its only the dude’s personal website that is a problem and that too, only if you click on the link that points to it. (Like I did, stupidly enough)

Yeah and I agree, like you say, the guy might not have done that intentionally. IT could be just poor website management


49 posted on 05/02/2011 5:25:24 AM PDT by JosephSmithNAW
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To: emax

It is largely true about myspace. Most of the people who actively use myspace are narcissists with a highly deluded sense of self importance. But as for facebook, well then i guess that its enormously widespread use is an accurate commentary of humanity today. It seems like it is becoming an international law for all people in the world to have a facebook page, like some sort of secret international ordinance. The same could soon be true for Twitter, especially now that it has been largely credited along with Facebook for toppling Mid East dictatorships.


I began using FB as a source of communication between my Navy kid, his family and us. Eventually, I found people that I’d long ago lost contact with along with old school friends. I’m not one to give out personal information or allow indiscriminate people to read my posts. For me social networking has been a Godsend.


50 posted on 05/02/2011 6:17:26 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: emax

It is largely true about myspace. Most of the people who actively use myspace are narcissists with a highly deluded sense of self importance. But as for facebook, well then i guess that its enormously widespread use is an accurate commentary of humanity today. It seems like it is becoming an international law for all people in the world to have a facebook page, like some sort of secret international ordinance. The same could soon be true for Twitter, especially now that it has been largely credited along with Facebook for toppling Mid East dictatorships.


I began using FB as a source of communication between my Navy kid, his family and us. Eventually, I found people that I’d long ago lost contact with along with old school friends. I’m not one to give out personal information or allow indiscriminate people to read my posts. For me social networking has been a Godsend.


51 posted on 05/02/2011 6:17:32 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: stlnative

That picture of dead OBL has been on the internet for sometime. It has been debunked as being fake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake


52 posted on 05/02/2011 6:25:45 AM PDT by GregNH (Re-Elect "No Body")
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To: JerseyHighlander

“Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”

Gotta love it!

Boortz just mentioned it.


53 posted on 05/02/2011 6:36:48 AM PDT by cyn (Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. ~Mark Twain)
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To: JerseyHighlander

funny where ReallyVirtual hides the giant flyswatter — awesome chain of events he and the others witnessed and communicated with each other.

http://twitter.com/#!/tahirakram


54 posted on 05/02/2011 6:53:24 AM PDT by cyn (Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. ~Mark Twain)
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To: Gene Eric

It sure is.


55 posted on 05/02/2011 7:19:57 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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To: Fledermaus
Doesn’t matter, it still proves why only idiots use Twit or ButtBook or MyASSSpace.
Ridiculous forms of communications.

Twitterbaters!

56 posted on 05/02/2011 9:07:17 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: FDNYRHEROES

Why is a facebook thread bad and a freep thread good? What’s the difference? (Except that on facebook, you get to see what your friends have to say, instead of every foul-mouthed jerky out there.)


57 posted on 05/02/2011 9:18:55 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Lexinom

The subject of this thread answers your question.


58 posted on 05/02/2011 9:24:01 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Great children's books - http://www.UsborneBooksGA.com)
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To: My Favorite Headache

So why is it all dated three days ago?


59 posted on 05/02/2011 9:27:18 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: ctdonath2
Conflicting elements. But the operation did take place yesterday morning. It was authorized a week ago.

It's a great day in America. I'm so very, very proud of our military and in awe of what Seal Team 6 pulled off here. We really, really needed this boost as a nation. 3,000 dead Americans and their surviving families finally have justice.

This is a crowning, if only symbolic, vindication of the Bush Administration's prosecution of the WOT. President Obama, like it or not, deserves a hat tip for continuing the pursuit in spite of himself.

And Pakistan's got a little splainin' to do...

60 posted on 05/02/2011 9:53:17 AM PDT by Lexinom
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