May 2nd, 2011
Ding Dong Bin Laden Dead
"Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Athar reported. "There goes the neighborhood."
A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.
With his tweets, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar, who moved to the sleepy town of Abbottabad to escape the big city, became in his own words "the guy who liveblogged the Usama raid without knowing it."
And a Salute to the Navy SEALS for getting the job done.
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In Los Angeles, police were stepping up intelligence monitoring, and New Yorkers will see extra police at their airports, bridges and the World Trade Center site itself.
Al Qaeda is patient though. They will wait until we have forgotten, as we always do.
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A 4-year operation obviously begun under George Bush's watch.
