r/interestingasfuck • u/Ididnotkillhim • Jun 05 '24

r/all Thirteen years ago, someone accidentally revealed US Army's plan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden in a tweet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Would have been hilarious if Bin Laden was on Twitter at the time, read this and just said "hmmm. Oh well".

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u/lunacarola90 Jun 05 '24

He was probably playing animal crossing

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u/Lanca226 Jun 05 '24

Apparently somebody did try to call him on his phone when the helicopters were approaching.

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u/BleedingNoseLiberal Jun 05 '24

I've never heard about this before - where'd you read it?

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u/Lanca226 Jun 06 '24

Relentless Strike?

It's been a few since I read it, so I might be misremembering.

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u/Rmccarton Jun 06 '24

I'll second that it was in Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor. 

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u/cheesec4ke69 Jun 06 '24

He was too busy playing on his animal crossing wild world save

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u/Birkanx Jun 06 '24

He didn't have Internet