About bin Laden's Abbottabad Internet Hook-Up
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, May 3 2011
A Department of Defense illustration of the layout of the Abbottabad compound, via ABC News. Down below, a pair of commentators question the claim that U.S. authorities' suspicions about the Abbottabad compound where ... Read More
Bin Laden Killing Sets Twitter Record
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, May 2 2011
"Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever," tweets Twitter. Read More
The Mapmakers for the U.S. Intelligence Community Who Helped Catch Bin Laden
BY Nick Judd | Monday, May 2 2011
The hunt for Osama bin Laden took years and involved some of the most sophisticated technology the U.S. military could bring to bear, including an entire agency devoted to developing intelligence based on maps and ... Read More
The bin Laden Compound: Off the Grid but in U.S. Sights
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, May 2 2011
IT consultant Sohaid Athar, who tweeted the progress of the raid, posted this photo the news became known with "For the curious, here is life in abbottabad two minutes ago." As Nick notes below, an IT ... Read More
How the bin Laden News Broke on Twitter: via a 'TV News Producer'
BY Nick Judd | Monday, May 2 2011
The New York Times' Brian Stelter says that Keith Urbahn, chief of staff for former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is "credited by many on the Web" with breaking the news of Osama bin Laden's death last night via ... Read More