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Vienna Reacts To Bin Laden's Death, In Tweets

A timeline of what our users were saying before, during and after Sunday's announcement

Even before President Barack Obama confirmed that Osama Bin Laden was dead in a televised speech Sunday night, people across the world took to Twitter to speculate, celebrate and discuss the death of Al Qaeda's long-time leader, sharing 140-character messages of joy, confusion, fear and hope about the death of the man behind the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Vienna Patch compiled a timeline of Tweets and ReTweets in and around Vienna that came across our feed before, during and after the Presiden'ts announcement.

10:38pm: Vienna Patch: #President making last minute speech. Some sources are saying #OsamaBinLaden is dead and US has body. Watch here: http://ow.ly/4KS56

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10:55 pm: MarkKeam: I still remember 9.11 as if it happened yesterday.10 years long time to wait for justice but not too late. God bless America!

10:57 pm: daveweigel: 2031: "Dad, where were you when we learned bin Laden died?" "Kids, I was saying stupid crap about it on Twitter."

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11:04 p.m.: MarkKeam: Credit goes to brave men and women in uniform who fought & sacrificed for our freedom.Not time for politicians to take credit.

11:05 p.m: iPaulLee: Are we in a safer or more dangerous world now? Bothered by the thought of escalating retribution.

11:32 pm: Vienna Patch: @washingtonpost live feed says two minute warning for Obama's speech

11:35 pm: President Obama Begins Speech

11:38 pm: RachaelDickson: Hundreds of people outside of the white house in dc- running toward it. This is amazing.

11:43 pm: Vienna Patch: Where were you on 9/11? What service members that you know have served in the fight since? Share here: http://patch.com/A-hdHc

11:54 pm: LukeRussert: Obama called George W Bush earlier in the evening to inform him of #BinLaden 's death.

11:54 pm: Vienna Patch: The US is not+never will be @ war with #Islam #BinLaden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims" http://patch.com/A-hdHc

Tuesday May 2

12:01 am: MarkKeam: "@whitehouse: Obama: “Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, that we have never forgotten your loss”

12:13 am: Vienna Patch: We've got photos of students in front of #Whitehouse chanting "#USA." http://patch.com/A-hdHc Celebrations in your neighborhood?Share pics

12:15 am:  InsideNoVA: Livestream from Channel 4: Party outside the White House tonight. Crowd of about 2,500 and growing: http://fb.me/X4Ns9xwp

12:15 am: DanKPatrick: multiple military sources say145 members of MDbased Marine's CBIRF team withdrawn from Japan to respond to any US emergency

12:15 am: connect2mason: Osama bin Laden has been killed. Student are running around outside campus. If you take video, let us know. #gmu

12:16 am: ColinStorm: Saw earlier: Most of crowd at W.H. was 8-11 yrs old when 9/11 happened. Likely first major event they remember, huge impact.

12:17 am:granthpaulsen @billbarnwell Unspoken part Obama's speech:"This is the s--- you interrupted when you made me release my birth certificate

12:41 am: markknoller: Cheering crowd outside White House estimated at 2500.

12:41 am:chaddukes: Great! He's dead! Can we bring home our troops??? Can we get OUT of these three money sucking wars we are in?? GET OUT OF IT!

12:41 am: HerndonPatch: RT @NAShSatt: The pilot announced that Bin Laden was dead when we landed at Dulles. The silence was deafening.

12:42 am: ptklein  Downtown #DC is in total gridlock.

12:43 am: careyscotttalks @JoshCahan Amen.We all deserve it.Great comment.Ur right on.Let's not celebrate where he is,but that justice was served.

12:43 am: ColinStorm: RT @suaadsait: RT @nihalmehta: groundzero webcams @ http://bit.ly/DKBcl

12:55 am: Vienna Patch #Obama 's full speech: http://patch.com/N-Zbf

12:56 am: BallstonPatch: Those loud/low #helicopters over #Ballston: http://patch.com/A-hdNy

1:22 am: WoodbridgePatch: RT @StateDept: U.S. citizens traveling and residing abroad should be alert to the potential for anti-American violence.

1:24 am: AlexThorneDC Many sides, thoughts RT @palafo:9/11 WTC survivor: "can’t find it in me to be glad one more person is dead,even bin Laden"

1:51am: _JuliaKim  Debating on whether to sleep or give up and join the masses in front of the White House on this very historic (early) morning.

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5:34 a.m.: ABC7News U.S. issues travel alert after bin Laden killing http://wj.la/lJQANi

7:16 amIAFF_L2068: Remembering our fallen brothers from FDNY L94 and L854 as we wake up and receive word that justice has been done. #9-11 #343

8:39 am: Fairfax Co Patch: Gov. McDonnell: 'The death of Osama Bin Laden brings final justice to the evil perpetrator of the attacks of 9/11.'

9:12 am: TheBeltTeam: Bin Laden's last words: "May Day, May Day"!

Vienna Patch will update tweets throughout the day on Monday.

 


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