Great day for the US

Usama Bin Laden is Dead. Kids, I'm sure you'll discuss this in a history class one day. As news is still filtering thru with details, he's a quick summary per our local news.
" At 3:30 p.m. EST, a 40-man Navy Seals squadron raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the Al Qaeda leader with a bullet to the head.

Four Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters dropped 24 men on the compound. One helicopter suffered a "hard landing" inside the compound after experiencing a mechanical failure and had to be destroyed on the site, according to one defense official.

There was a large shootout. The residents at the compound resisted. The total raid took 40 minutes.

No Americans were killed in the mission Sunday. Officials said three adult men other than bin Laden were killed – one was believed to be bin Laden’s son, the others couriers. One woman was killed when she was used as a human shield and two other women were also injured. Officials said bin Laden’s body, which was in U.S. custody, was given a sea burial."

Most people say there know exactly where they were when big news hits. We were sitting on the couch, watching Mad Love, when news broke just before 11. We watched thru President Obama's speech, text a feww friends to see if they had heard. Twitter was a wild storm of chatter. Turns out,
Twitter reporting a high of 5,106 updates per second late Sunday night with U.S. President Barack Obama announcing live on U.S. television that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaida leader and 9/11 architect Osama bin Laden and had "taken custody" of his body. USA today said that within hours of the news, Twitter had over 2.2 million tweets regarding Bin Laden. Sohaib Athars' tweet is most notable because he practicall tweeted live the attack.
In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding that he hoped it wasn’t “the start of something nasty.” A few hours later Athar posted another tweet: “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”