Sohaib Athar — the Abbottabad IT consultant that tweeted the U.S. raid on Osama Bin Laden by accident — has been inundated with media requests since news of the Al-Qaeda leader's death broke. And now he just wants to sleep.
"Bin Laden is dead," Athar wrote on Twitter on Monday. "I didn’t kill him. Please let me sleep now."
On Sunday afternoon (or early Monday local time), Athar tweeted as U.S. forces were carrying out their mission:
"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."
Then:
"A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt.