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Meet sohaib athar, accidental witness of osama bin laden raid we want to hear what you think about this article. Top 4 deliveries of sohaib akhtar urduhindi youtube. A computer screen in singapore may 2, 2011, shows the twitter page of sohaib athar. Who is blessing islamabad with their presence or departure this time. An abbottabad cafe owner and technology consultant sohaib athar heard a helicopter hovering in his neighbourhood an unusual incident to happen in the wee hours of monday. Prior to this, he worked with the igc as a country economist in pakistan for two years, where he helped manage our large portfolio of economic research projects. Ironically, sohaib athar moved to the resort town of abbottabad to get away from the action in islamabad. Bin laden raid inadvertently live tweeted rt usa news. Islamic video lectures is an islamic application with comprehensive filtering, searching and organization features. Athar, an it consultant in abbottabad, pakistan, became famous overnight after. The tweet that broke the news of bin ladens death the. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Linkedin is the worlds largest business network, helping professionals like sohaib athar discover inside connections to recommended job. Accidental witness to bin laden raid, sohaib athar speaks up.
View sohaib athar s professional profile on linkedin. Sohaib athar, a 33yearold pakistani it consultant tweets the american raid on abbottabad. An it consultant on a break from the ratrace by hiding in the mountains with his laptops. Osama bin laden, the founder and first leader of the jihadist terrorist group, alqaeda, was killed in pakistan on may 2, 2011, shortly after 1. Osama bin laden didnt use the internet till the very end but ironically it was the internet that first picked up news of the us operations, with shoaib athar sending out tweets from his home just yards away. Sohaib athar tweeted about commotion in abbottabad that turned out to be u. In several subsequent posts, he livetweeted the operation. Sohaib athar, a resident of abbottabad, pakistan, spent sundays wee hours tweeting about helicopters circling overhead and a mysterious blast. Jonny bairstow exposed the indian bowlers completely. Check out this insane bouncer ps i had to reupload this video, the previous one was crap quality. Shoaib akhtar on hattrick clear lbw not given vs new.
The video was shot by a shopkeeper and shared by a local guy here for the summer from the uk. Join facebook to connect with sohaib athar and others you may know. Touring abbottabad with the guy who livetweeted the raid. And, for nine hours, he did not even realize he was doing so. Sohaib athar added 1 video to music 1 year ago 3 videos play all music playlist. Helicopter hovering above abbottabad at 1am is a rare event, wrote athar. Should the photo, and perhaps the video, of bin ladens demise be released.
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