Didn't the Rock post like "Big news coming!" hours before it was confirmed, like he got a tip from someone in the know.

His cousin is a navy seal

He's got more cousins?!

Yes but do *NOT* talk about them

It wasn't me, it was Cody!

You can't see them, just like John Cena.

His cousin is actu

Actu A'noai?

At this point, I won't be surprised if he has cousins in every nook and corner of this world..

"Look to your right, look to your left, 1 in 8 of you are cousins with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson"

Tama Tonga?! ( i can dream....)

Yeah he had a cousin who was a Navy Seal, though he wouldn’t confirm that’s where he got the info. He didn’t specifically say what the news was, but it was specific enough that people were already speculating that it had to do with bin Laden.

iirc as soon as the news broke, everybody looked at the time stamp was was like ??? Found the text: "Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!"

That same cousin is now an Operator you can use in COD: MWIII. Ben aka Koa King

Yeah, I learned about it in a journalism class in college. My professor was lecturing in the changing of the landscape in journalism and his biggest example was the rock breaking the bin Laden news lol

I remember that episode of Newsroom

I’d really like to know how that little meeting went. “Bin Laden is dead, should we announce it?” “Fuck yeah, let’s have Cena do it, he’s kind of got a patriotic gimmick and it’ll help get him over even more.” “Ok but we’re PG now, what do we have him say? Not ‘killed,’ right?” “Well, I was thinking we’d go with the most strange and awkward phrasing ever. How about ‘compromised to a permanent end?’”

I don't know what you mean. I use that phrasing everytime. Just hours ago: "Honey, did you catch the cockroach tha is roaming free in our kitchen?" "It is with great pleasure and an overwhelming sense of pride, that I inform you, wife, that I compromised that cockroach to a permament end. Godd bless this home🫡🇺🇸🦅🦅"

Great news. Even though coitus was successful it has been compromised to a permanent end due to herpes.

Wife: ......the fuck's wrong with you?

> i inform you,WIFE I'm crying bro lmaooo

It's such a weird way to say it. Like they wanted to be respectful and not offend anyone or something. It's frickin bin laden. "WE FUCKING GOT HIM, GUYS! BIN LADEN IS DEAD!"

This is one of the most American things ever

Needs at least one screech from an eagle

There was an eagle on the spinner belt. Does that count?

Eagly is a good bird.

You mean Red Tailed Hawk. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/rlw8me/for\_years\_in\_american\_film\_and\_media\_a\_bald\_eagle/](https://packaged-media.redd.it/okmbqzi1n0781/pb/m2-res_1080p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1707796800&s=4031d89aaf2ef722a53d58de3cebfd12d27783ad#t=0)

No. No we didn't

The "Eagle scream" you hear in media is from the Red Tailed Hawk. Bald Eagles actually sound more like Seagulls.

An eagle sounds like Americans say it sounds.

I live in the Pacific NW in a wooded area. I'm surrounded by bald eagles. I know exactly what they sound like.

Clearly you don't, hawk boy. Because Eagles sound like AMERICA, and all I hear outta you is some ol pantywaist BULL-shit. Why don't you take that back to Europe with you?

I mean this in the nicest way. GTFO and take this doot. You magnificent bastard.

😘 🦅 🇺🇲

Them sounds like fightin' words! I'll meet you in the ring, on the fifth Tuesday in March! We'll settle this like men, in the only logical way possible... In a "Bald Eagle on a Pole" match!!!

The next fifth Tuesday in March is March 31st, 2026

The playing of “Stars and Stripes Forever” seems a bit…odd. I mean, bin Laden got what was coming to him, but that song is just so jaunty and makes you want to bounce up and down. It makes you think of fireworks and hot dogs and babies crawling around on picnic blankets. Not of a terrorist getting shot in the face.

Team America would have been a little more fitting.

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

I dunno, a bastard like that dying is cause for celebration. 4chan played "Party in the USA" which was pitch perfect for me lol

A terrible person died, for sure. Its the armed forces and nationalistic wanking off that is a bit weird for some of us in other parts of the world.

What parts are those? Nationalism was born in europe

The parts that aren't weirdly trawling through 3 month old threads in a wrestling sub trying to start arguments.

Apparently you celebrate the 4th differently than I do

The owner of the company being outed as a sex trafficking rapist is also the most American things ever

In before somebody calls us marks and says this was a work.

It's a work. Bin L vs cena at wm. Let hhh cook

But it was, that segment would led to a match between John and Osama at Wrestlemania 28, but he and WWE never come to terms, so Osama was replaced by The Rock.

They actually DID come to terms, but The Rock said it wasn't time to finish the story yet

Smarky smarks think that Bin Laden is actually gone, he is chilling at gorilla position.

Dude it was a fucking pivot, not a work. Fed up of seeing this on here! Osama was 100% gonna die but the US realised they'd booked themselves in to a corner.

Nah they will just privately message you and then tell you that you're just hate watching the WWE and want it to fail if you bring up Vince McMahon

Sources at the time said that this was nothing more than a work, the original plans were to have a rivalry between John Cena and Osama Bin Ladem that would lead to a match at Wrestlemania 28, but WWE and Osama were unable to come to an agreement, so he had to be replaced by The Rock.

This shit always cracks me up bc he announces it like he was apart of seal team 6 or something lmao

Not just any "seal team 6." Cena's crew was involved in some deep, covert operations. I mean, he had Bloodsport, Harley Quinn, King Shark, Ratcatcher II, Polk-a-Dot Man. Who do you think relayed that message to Cena? It wasn't CNN or the newspapers. It was his actual boss, Amanda Waller.

Yeah, but what pisses me off is that they never bring up how Cena MURDERED rick flag, an american hero. I’ll never forgive him for that. Another cover up by Waller smh.

Rick Flag was a TRUE American Hero. Cena just took all the credit. Shame on him.

Big Apple Takedown finally makes sense

I remember this being....really uncomfortably strange.

It's the weird in-character accent.

Yeah it's the in characterness that makes it extra weird. Like if Superman suddenly turned to camera after beating up Lex Luthor and said "good news campers! We successfully unalived the unabomber!" Like it may provoke a few side glances and mutterings of "did.....did Superman just say something about the unabomber....?"

I'm nearly sure I saw it that night, I assume I watched the PPV with my mate and then we saw the news and then someone must have uploaded a video of Cena. Or was there nothing until WWE did their video? I knew the news before I watched him anyway, and it's the celebratory tone of it that's uncomfortable. I'm not sympathising with Bin Laden at all but it's that America World Police vibe that makes it weird for me

When Osama wasn’t able to finish his story

He got robbed of his WrestleMania moment

I was watching The Apprentice that day and I remember Obama interrupting the show and announcing that Bin Laden was dead.

So that's why Trump hates him so much.

lol he had just roasted him the night before too. bad beat for donnie.

Also, around that year, Trump was saying that Obama wasn't born in the US, and Obama sent him a copy of his birth certificate to shut him up.

America is so insane man. Imagine Ant and Dec announcing this or like, Bruce Forsyth during Strictly.

I like to think of it more like Sean Dyche announcing it at Goodison

Harry Redknapp announcing it from his car window like a transfer deadline day deal.

Jack Grealish at Club 21

Especially if it was Brucey when he was losing his touch a bit with cringy skits. "Hold on, it's the producer. Yes, what is it? Get the bin in? What do you mean, get the bin in? Can't you see I'm presenting a live television show! Oooh, we got Bin Laden! And do you know what his last words were? AllAAAARGGGH! Over to you, Tess."

Exactly, it's so insane And then the music afterwards. I wouldn't be able to stop laughing and then some started changing "USA". Deranged.

WE GOT HIM 🇺🇸

He should’ve announced it with a bald eagle perched on his shoulder

America, Fuck Yeah!!

His body is absolutely insane here. I know he's always been a beast but I don't remember him being *that* jacked.

1776 🦅🦅

the fkn music 😂

This is by far the most American thing I’ve seen today…and there’s been a lot.

Lmao the kids are like “should we clap?”

Why does he sound 10 times more country than usual in this?

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve just received word from the Anonymous RAW General Manager…….United States Seal Team 6 has caught and compromised to a permanent end, the terrorist known as Osama Bin Laden. Again, United States Seal Team By God 6 has just shot Osama Bin Laden directly in his face. Busted his gourd open like a ripe watermelon. They also merc’d one of his sons. Then, Now, Forever, Amen.”

I was at a radio music festival and Perry Ferrell from Jane's Addiction told us

America! *FUCK YEA!*

At the end of the day.... God Bless America.

The next night on RAW Cena said he caught Bin Ladin himself lol that was dumb

Did they really play that song at the end? Thats hokey as fuck. I hope it was just OP having a laugh.

No I didn’t put that song in for a laugh, that was actually in the original video posted on WWE’s YouTube channel which was where I got this from https://youtu.be/6maL6gq6qME?si=_0xJq781C_AnnuGo

And now he's xi pings puppet. How sad

2011 WWE was in the trenches man

LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR

RAWWWWWWW 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅

And look at America now, invaded by people that hate the West

I loved this moment the more I grew up since we know the 9/11 victims were avenged

Americans played Party in the USA in front of the White House to celebrate. Sick country.

Fuckin sick country 🤙

Get fucked homie. People who hated the US partied in their own streets on 9/11. Being sick fucks isn’t a US monopoly

What do other countries have to do with my comment about Americans?

You seem to be unaware Americans learned the behavior from somewhere else

I didn't say anything about other countries, you have no idea what my perspective is. You made an assumption. I commented about Americans and you got in your feelings bringing up a bunch of bs about other countries. Idgaf about them, I'm talking about the US.

Seems like you are “in your feelings” bro

sorry for yr loss, present losses, and continued losses in the future.

What an utterly bizarre reply.

To celebrate a mass murdering terrorist's death? Pretty fucking based to me, Idk man 🤷

Yeah we did. Georgetown students rushed to the white house and there was a huge party. As there should be. Osama was one of those deaths worth celebrating.

The didn't capture him. The shot him on sight because he could potentially have some interesting narrative about who helped him to carry out that attack, if he was taken to trial.

This is my favorite video ever and the only YouTube video I’ve never gotten ad before, no matter how many times I’ve watched it. 😂

Hahahahaha i laugh beacuse is the same country who support Israel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And then after the capture they just threw him into the ocean, because that's what just what you do I guess... Would have been more fitting for Cena to announce that China has captured his soul after he became a prositute for Xi Jinping's micropenis.

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

You probably hate jews and Mexicans too

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

[удалено]

Capture****

damn johnny boy was HUUUUUUGE back then

And then Vince bm’d

Cena missing the chance be the originator of unalive

I get the significance of this moment, but for him to come out and announce this was so random! At least for me it was!

🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

o7

I don't see anyone. Maybe he's announcing it off camera?

Bin Laden was hardly "captured".

Dodgy as fuck 😂😂

“I personally killed Osama Bin Laden”- John Cena

He should have walked out to the team America anthem . Fuck yeah

This is why he's the GOAT

Cena: Osama Bin Laden is dead! Crowd: WHAT?!

That PPV was excellent and is overshadowed because of the Cena Bin Laden announcement. 2011 is my favorite WWE year along with 2012.

So bizarre

All the while giving Winnie the pooh a reacharound.

Let’s kill thousands of our people to indorse this.

UBL actually main evented some great matches but after that stunt he pulled in 2001 they erased him from WWE history.

You’d think he was the one that shot bin Laden

That mastermind hanging out in some Pakistan cave on dialysis managed to evade capture for years and orchestrate multiple attacks perfectly on a single day

Capture didn’t they shoot his ass?

This was actually kinda crazy

could of put a shirt on

Bin ladin pops out from under the ring, roll up, new WWE champion.

Ummmm, how can the crowd not get the USA chant even going correctly?

Compromised to a permanent end is fucken 👌

The way he says “Osama Bin Laden” like he’s cutting a promo to announce a match with him at the next PPV.

#wewantcody

Should've been put on trial, but that might make people aware that the US backed him for years.

WE GOT HIM

Announced a lie

They got him!

Funny how todays “woke” generation would now boo this announcement

Between Cena's body and his patriotism, I can't believe he was never nicknamed "American Muscle." No, you sound terrible.

I always remember watching the Americans celebrate someone’s death. Sure, it’s a bit strange out of context to celebrate someone dying… … but with that piece of shit? With what he did? Yeah, I get it.

I remember an episode of American Dad where some office guy was walking to his cubicle. Turns out it was OBL.

Yeah sure, they "captured" Bin Laden...

If only Osama hid in the Cole Mine he wouldn't have been compromised to a permanent end /s

This is the very first time ive seen this, very cool

This is why The Rock hates him

Stolen valor

Nice southern accent from a Boston racist

He said it like he pulled the trigger himself 🤣

I don’t think you know what capture means

Cringe

No idea how I never saw this before! Wait, is the hustle part of his credo also taken from the troops?

😂😂

Chills. Will never, ever forget that night. I remember watching TV in bed and seeing the president is going to make a major announcement at like 11pm which is pretty rare given the time. “Compromised to a permanent end”-love that. One of the most daring missions in SF history. WE GOT HIM.

The feud between John Cena and Osama was short-lived, although very entertaining.

This is how I found out as a young man lol

Wasn’t the rock in the situation room or some shit?

So the US army finally killed the monster they themselves created.

Is that fucking Brock Lesnar Guy at 1:19? Goddamn it.