It was May 1st, almost one month and four years ago, that a US helicopter appeared atop a rooftop in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and dropped a group of US Navy SEALS to do a job that would go down as one of the most noteworthy missions in history — to kill Osama bin Laden.
With this in mind, take a stroll down memory lane, to that fateful night in 2011. It was also a time of high shine on the Twittersphere.
US President Barack Obama announced bin Laden’s death hours after the raid ended, and America went wild. But the news actually broke long before that, when a Pakistani IT tech named Sohaib Athar accidentally live tweeted the whole thing, starting with this:
As more helicopters appeared and curious Twitter users engaged with Athar, the IT tech — who, ironically, was trying to "take a break from the rat race" by vacationing in Abbottobad — took to Twitter to muse about the mysterious choppers. Were these drones? The Taliban?
Little did he know, he was becoming an integral part of one of the biggest American manhunts in history.
