CIA tweeting details of bin Laden raid on anniversary

To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the CIA is tweeting it as if it were happening today.

“To mark the 5th anniversary of the Usama Bin Laden operation in Abbottabad we will tweet the raid as if it were happening today,” the CIA tweeted at about 1 p.m. on Sunday.

{mosads}The CIA tweeted that bin Laden’s death “marked significant victory in US-led campaign to disrupt, dismantle, & defeat al-Qa’ida.”

At 1:25 p.m. the organization had an update, and again at 1:51, detailing what happened on the day 5 years ago.

To mark the 5th anniversary of the Usama Bin Ladin operation in Abbottabad we will tweet the raid as if it were happening today.#UBLRaid

— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2016

1:25 pm EDT-@POTUS, DCIA Panetta, & JSOC commander Admiral McRaven approve execution of op in Abbottabad.#UBLRaid pic.twitter.com/YhvuJVrMVc

— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2016

1:51 pm EDT – Helicopters depart from Afghanistan for compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan#UBLRaid

— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2016

People took to Twitter to question why the CIA was live-tweeting the event that happened five years ago.

I can only assume the CIA has been hacked. Because there’s not a single sensible reason otherwise. https://t.co/ddeTW01mxn

— Simon Clancy (@SiClancy) May 1, 2016

Ok, what other world events should @CIA retroactively live tweet? Personally I want a breakdown of the Castro-exploding-cigar fiasco.

— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) May 1, 2016