{"id":25041,"date":"2016-05-02T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cia-mocked-for-live-tweeting-bin-laden-killing\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:48:52","slug":"cia-mocked-for-live-tweeting-bin-laden-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cia-mocked-for-live-tweeting-bin-laden-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA mocked for &#8216;live tweeting&#8217; Bin Laden killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{US spy agency marks fifth anniversary of al-Qaeda chief&#8217;s assassination by posting timeline of operation on Twitter.}<\/p>\n<p>US spy agency the CIA has &#8220;live tweeted&#8221; the military raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan five years ago, drawing derision and satire from many people on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seal commandos on May 2, 2011, when they raided his compound in Abbottabad. <\/p>\n<p>Several of the tweets included diagrams and maps of the compound, providing a rundown of the operation from the moment US President Barack Obama and intelligence officials approved it until the president received confirmation that bin Laden had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ABC News, CIA spokesperson Ryan Trapani defended the operation, arguing that the &#8220;takedown of bin Laden stands as one of the great intelligence successes of all time&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;On the fifth anniversary, it is appropriate to remember the day and honour all those who had a hand in this achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12055 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8c6fc68855fc4fc7a53c47728b089350_18.jpg\" alt=\"Several social media users mocked the CIA&#039;s Twitter timeline of bin Laden&#039;s assassination\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{US spy agency marks fifth anniversary of al-Qaeda chief&#8217;s assassination by posting timeline of operation on Twitter.} US spy agency the CIA has &#8220;live tweeted&#8221; the military raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan five years ago, drawing derision and satire from many people on Twitter. Bin Laden was killed by US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}