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The story of the man who almost accidentally spoiled the US Army plan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden with a tweet, 15 years ago Today. With a couple of software projects on the go, Sohaib Athar was making the most of the late-night calm to get some work done. As his wife and son slept, he heard the whir and chop of rotor blades above the two-story house where they lived. Strange, he thought, for an aircraft to be flying so low over a residential area at this hour. He checked the time: it was well past midnight. Abbottabad, a former colonial garrison town nestled in the green hills of northern Pakistan, is a small city known for its trees, parks and the country’s top military academy. Athar and his family moved there in 2009 to get away from the heat, grime and occasional terrorist attacks in Lahore, a traffic-clogged metropolis on the plains of Punjab. And he didn’t know it then, but with that one sentence, he had become the first person to report on a blockbuster news story that would grip the world.