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Bin Laden death: CIA panned for 'live-tweeting' raid on anniversary | Bin Laden death: CIA panned for 'live-tweeting' raid on anniversary |
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The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been criticised for live-tweeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden as if it were happening today. | |
It has shared details of the mission that led to America's most-wanted man being found five years ago in Pakistan. | It has shared details of the mission that led to America's most-wanted man being found five years ago in Pakistan. |
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 usual 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 CIA's first 'live tweet', hashtagged #UBLRaid, begins: "1:25 pm EDT-@POTUS, DCIA Panetta, & JSOC commander Admiral McRaven approve execution of op in Abbottabad." | |
At 1:15pm "Helicopters depart from Afghanistan for compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan". Just under 90 minutes later, "2 helicopters descend on compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 crashes, but assault continues without delay or injury". | At 1:15pm "Helicopters depart from Afghanistan for compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan". Just under 90 minutes later, "2 helicopters descend on compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 crashes, but assault continues without delay or injury". |
Osama Bin Laden is "found on third floor and killed" at 3:39pm. | Osama Bin Laden is "found on third floor and killed" at 3:39pm. |
The last tweet, at 7:01pm, reads: "@POTUS [President Obama] receives confirmation of high probability of positive identification of Usama Bin Ladin". | The last tweet, at 7:01pm, reads: "@POTUS [President Obama] receives confirmation of high probability of positive identification of Usama Bin Ladin". |
The tweets prompted an outpouring of criticism among Twitter users: | |
But some were more supportive: | |
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, in May 2011 after evading capture by the US and its allies for nearly a decade. | 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, 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 but "it's not completely eliminated, so we have to stay focused on what it can do". | |
He said removing Bin Laden had a great symbolic and strategic effect on al-Qaeda and it was important to do the same thing with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the so-called Islamic State (IS). | |
But, talking to NBC's Meet the Press show, he described IS as a "phenomenon" that had influence in many countries around the world "so we are going to have to remain very focused on destroying all the elements of that organisation". | |