News

Secret Stealth Drones Spied On Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above.


May 8, 2011
Geek Out

Obama Cracks Wise After The Operation To Find Bin Laden

Tensions were high during the decision-making process that would lead up to the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Success depended on the precision of the Navy SEALs team in order to kill this slaughterer of thousands.


May 2, 2011
Online

Someone Live-Tweeted The Osama Bin Laden Raid Without Knowing It

How does someone unknowingly live-tweet the biggest news story of the weekend (sorry royal wedding), if not the decade? @ReallyVirtual knows. The IT consultant was just “taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops,” when he heard a helicopter, then a “huge window shaking bang,” and then the helicopter going down. Reading his tweets, it’s obvious he had no idea what was going on—nor how life-defining that moment would be for so many people.