中情局描述突襲本拉登行動

The United States’ Central Intelligence Agency tweeted the details of an operation that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden Sunday, drawing thousands of retweets and likes from apparent supporters while others responded with criticism.

The operation was the one President Barack Obama approved in May 2011 that involved special operations forces flying helicopters into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and later dumping bin Laden's body into the sea.

Twitter has been around since 2006, but the CIA is a relative newcomer with an account dating back just two years. The agency's 1,600 tweets usually involve its history, profiles of agents killed in service or public comments from current officials.

But with the fifth anniversary of the bin Laden raid, the CIA announced it would "live" tweet the details as if they were happening again to its 1.3 million followers. Over the course of six hours, the tweets laid out the events that ultimately ended what had been a nearly decade-long search for the man whose organization killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.美國中央情報局星期日在推特上公佈擊斃基地組織首領本拉登的行動細節，數千次被轉發，有些網友表示支持，有些則提出批評。

奧巴馬總統於2011年5月批准了這項行動計劃，命特種部隊乘直升機進入位於巴基斯坦阿伯塔巴德的本拉登藏身地，後來又將本拉登的屍體拋進海里。

推特從2006年開始運作，而美國中情局兩年前剛剛建立推特賬號。中情局的1600條推特內容通常涉及中情局歷史，以身殉職的特工的生平介紹，或是在職官員發表的公開評論。

但在突襲本拉登行動5週年之際，中情局宣佈要以“現場直播”的方式在推特上向130萬關注者公佈這一行動的細節。在先後6小時內，中情局在推特上展示了突襲行動的整個過程。這次行動最終結束了對本拉登歷時將近十年的追捕。他領導的基地組織於2001年9月11日對美國發動恐怖襲擊，造成近3000人死亡。