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Critics slam CIA for ‘live tweeting’ Bin Laden’s death

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Critics slam CIA for ‘live tweeting’ Bin Laden’s death
Scores of critics slammed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for ‘live tweeting’ Osama Bin Laden’s death as if it were happening today.
In ‘live tweets’ shared online, the CIA shared details of the mission that led to Bin Laden’s death about five years ago in Pakistan which saw the last of America’s most-wanted man.
Reactions have been largely negative, with one Twitter user calling the move “grotesque and embarrassing”.
Other critics posted memes and gifs of people rolling their eyes and putting their heads in their hands as they showed their displeasure at the Intelligence Agency whose other tweets mostly concern historical trivia and artefacts.
Osama, the leader of al-Qaeda, who was thought to have ordered the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, was shot dead at a compound in Abbottabad, in May 2011 after evading capture by the US and its allies for nearly a decade.
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