CIA under fire for 'live tweeting' dramatic Bin Laden raid on 5 year anniversary

'How does this differentiate you from ISIS and their videos?'

The CIA celebrated the 5-year anniversary of Osama bin Ladin's death by posting "live tweets" of the raid that killed him.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - For those who don't have a Twitter account, the CIA posted a timeline of the raid on their website.

The tweets were meant to recreate the mission to give Twitter members an opportunity to experience the raid in "real time."

Though the idea was an interesting one, comments made it immediately clear that not everyone was happy about the tweets.

Some claimed bin Ladin wasn't killed, since the timeline includes a typo by writing Osama as "Usama."

Others went as far as asking the CIA if they were attempting to initiate WWIII.

Some users wanted to know if bin Ladin was really killed, and if so, why his body was never provided as evidence to the American people.

Still others called the CIA out for perpetuating violence as a method of entertainment, with one person with the handle @RedLessGeorge, asking, "How does this differentiate you from ISIS and their videos?"

Despite the firestorm of hate comments, the CIA kept the timeline up on Twitter and their website, which states:

Timeline of the Raid

May 1 - ETD

1:23 p.m. EDT -President Obama, DCIA Panetta, and JSOC commander Admiral McRaven approve execution of the operation.
1:51 p.m. EDT -Helicopters depart from Afghanistan.
3:30 p.m. EDT -Two helicopters descend on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (north of Islamabad). One crashes, but the assault continues without delay or injury.
3:32 p.m. EDT -President Obama, in the Situation Room, receives up to the minute reports on the situation on the ground in Abbottabad.
3:39 p.m. EDT -Usama Bin Ladin is found on third floor and killed.
3:53 p.m. EDT -President Obama receives tentative confirmation of positive identification of Bin Ladin
3:55 p.m. EDT -Bin Ladin's body is moved to the first floor and placed in a body bag.
3:39 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. EDT -Assault Team retrieves a large quantity of materials from the compound for intelligence analysis.
4:05 p.m. EDT -First helicopter leaves the area.
4:08 p.m. EDT -Assault Team destroys the crashed helicopter.
4:10 p.m. EDT -Backup helicopter picks up remaining team members and materials and leaves Abbottabad.
5:53 p.m. EDT -Helicopters return to Afghanistan where Admiral McRaven greets the team.
7:01 p.m. EDT -President Obama receives confirmations of high probability of positive identification of Bin Ladin.
11:35 p.m. EDT -President Obama speaks to the nation from the East Room.

May 2 -EDT

12:59 a.m. EDT -Bin Ladin's body is buried at sea from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the north Arabian Sea.

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