The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone helped the U.S. government spy on Osama Bin Laden’s compound from the skies without being noticed. The RQ-170 operated quietly and provided imagery to the U.S. government. The RQ-170 did some digital eavesdropping as the mission was being planned and provided a live feed for President Obama when it was being executed. [Danger Room]

Osama Bin Laden did not have Internet access at his hideout compound but he did have computers and a courier. Having these resources, Osama was able to send e-mails back-and-forth to his al-Qaeda network. When the U.S. government seized computers, flash disks, etc. from Bin Laden’s compound, thousands of messages and e-mail addresses was revealed.

Every Bin Laden propaganda video that has been released to the public was scrutinized by the terrorist himself. He was very peculiar and obsessed with his image. As a matter of fact, U.S. officials recently released five videos that were found at the compound that he was assassinated in. In one video, it shows Bin Laden watching himself on TV and channel surfing. Officials removed the audio because it would have been “inappropriate to spread the words of terrorists and propaganda messages, especially Osama bin Laden.” [CNN]

The Navy SEALs have confiscated computer drives and disks when they raided Osama bin Laden’s compound. A U.S. official called this data “the mother lode of intelligence.”

NMA.tv, a Taiwanese company best known for creating animations around current events, has created a video about Sohaib Athar. Athar is the man that is best known for live tweeting the assassination of Osama. Check out the video above.

Sohaib Athar is an IT consultant that lives in Abbottabad in northern Pakistan. This is the same city where Osama Bin Laden was assassinated in a mansion. Athar is a self-proclaimed “startup specialist” according to his LinkedIn profile. He also became the man that inadvertently live-tweeted the assassination of Osama Bin Laden yesterday. Below are some of the tweets he sent out while the event was taking place: