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Operation that killed Osama bin Laden were noticed by an IT consultant awake late at night.

02 May,2011 08:42 pm

First signs of the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were noticed by an IT consultant awake late at night.Shoaib Athar, a resident of Abbottabad, first noticed a helicopter and thought it unusual enough to post this on his Twitter account. Athar reported on his Twitter account that a loud bang had rattled his windows in Abbottabad, saying he hoped It is not the start of something nasty. A few hours later Athar posted another tweet: Now Im the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. Seven hours after Athars first tweet, President Barack Obama announced bin Ladens death in an operation by U.S. forces where one helicopter was lost.In the United States, the first indication that bin Laden had been found and killed came from a another tweet by Keith Urbahn, who says on his Twitter profile that he is chief of staff for former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.