Tweeter ‘broke’ operation

THE news that Osama bin Laden had been killed broke on Twitter shortly before US President Barack Obama made the official announcement.

An IT consultant living in Abbottabad unknowingly tweeted the first details of the operation. Sohaib Athar has been inundated with requests for interviews since.

At 1am local time (9pm BST), Mr Athar noted on Twitter that a helicopter was hovering overhead shortly before the assault began and said that it might not be a Pakistani aircraft.