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| Bin Laden death: CIA panned for live-tweeting 'news' | Bin Laden death: CIA panned for live-tweeting 'news' |
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| The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been criticised online for live-tweeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden as it happened five years ago. | The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been criticised online for live-tweeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden as it happened five years ago. |
| It has shared details of the mission and intelligence that led to America's most wanted man being found. | It has shared details of the mission and intelligence that led to America's most wanted man being found. |
| But reaction has been largely negative, with one Twitter user calling the move "grotesque and embarrassing". | But reaction has been largely negative, with one Twitter user calling the move "grotesque and embarrassing". |
| Others posted memes and gifs of people rolling their eyes and putting their heads in their hands. | Others posted memes and gifs of people rolling their eyes and putting their heads in their hands. |
| The CIA's other tweets mostly concern historical trivia and artefacts. | The CIA's other tweets mostly concern historical trivia and artefacts. |
| How the lives of Osama Bin Laden's neighbours changed forever | How the lives of Osama Bin Laden's neighbours changed forever |
| Legacy of Bin Laden's death | Legacy of Bin Laden's death |
| Who was Osama Bin Laden? | Who was Osama Bin Laden? |
| Bin Laden's death: How it happened | Bin Laden's death: How it happened |
| Have we been told the truth about Bin Laden's death? | Have we been told the truth about Bin Laden's death? |
| The leader of al-Qaeda, who was thought to have ordered the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, was shot dead at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011 after evading capture by the US and its allies for nearly a decade. | |
| Speaking on the fifth anniversary of his death, CIA director John Brennan said the United States had destroyed a large part of al-Qaeda. | |
| Bin Laden had a great symbolic and strategic significance, he told CBS, and it was important to remove the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks. | |
| He said removing the head of the self-styled Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, could have a great impact but added that counter-terrorism agencies were confronting not just an organisation but a phenomenon, and the challenge would continue for many years. | |
| "I think it has had a resonance, unfortunately, that has appealed to the hearts and souls and minds of individuals who have been misled by their narrative of it being a religious banner," he said. | |
| The CIA's tweet announcing its plans to "live-tweet" the raid was favourited more than 2,000 times on Twitter | The CIA's tweet announcing its plans to "live-tweet" the raid was favourited more than 2,000 times on Twitter |
| Some Twitter users thought it was inappropriate | Some Twitter users thought it was inappropriate |
| A few people offered messages of support | A few people offered messages of support |