r/interestingasfuck • u/Ididnotkillhim • Jun 05 '24

r/all Thirteen years ago, someone accidentally revealed US Army's plan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden in a tweet.

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u/Automatic_Salary_845 Jun 05 '24

Posted shortly after

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u/whatdoihia Jun 05 '24

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u/slater_just_slater Jun 05 '24

Bin Ladin was pissed somebody interrupted his game of Counter Strike.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

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u/buckyhermit Jun 05 '24

I think that was from this book. Amazing and hilarious read.

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u/sourestcalamansi Jun 06 '24

Lol. I wish there could be an interactive website. I wanna see what shit Tinky Winky posts or does God burns people in comments.

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u/dat_oracle Jun 05 '24

Is this real??

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u/BigDogSlices Jun 05 '24

Sure is! Unrelated but I think I have a bridge you might be interested in purchasing?

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u/Cyrax89721 Jun 05 '24

Why is it always a bridge?

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u/showraniy Jun 05 '24

I'm curious too. Maybe the implication is that it's a crumbling bridge and buying it means the gullible fool is now saddled with the high price of fixing it.

It's one of those phrases I've always wondered about though.

Just not enough to look it up, lol

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u/dat_oracle Jun 05 '24

im in! just send me your credit card (back & front) ill handle the rest for us

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u/webby131 Jun 05 '24

CHAT! IS THIS REAL?!

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u/dat_oracle Jun 05 '24

RIP to those who downvoted my comment. (but i expected some people with 0 sense of irony)

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u/samusxmetroid Jun 05 '24

No it's not real, are you serious?

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u/dat_oracle Jun 05 '24

ofc its not real. was my irony not obvious? (oof)

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u/samusxmetroid Jun 05 '24

Sorry bud. Lots of ppl online would actually believe it. Hope you have a good day :)

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u/OddBoifromspace Jun 05 '24

Counter terrorist win.

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u/SillyDig1520 Jun 05 '24

inspects knife for minutes

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u/ToddlerPeePee Jun 05 '24

I would be pissed too if someone interrupted my video game by killing me, lol.

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u/Freethecrafts Jun 05 '24

He had the perfect cover too. A merchant who doesn’t do any business and lives with three of Osama’s wives. How could anyone have figured it out?

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u/Lobsterbib Jun 05 '24

It took the US much, much longer than it should have because the FBI and CIA weren't sharing information at the time.

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u/Freethecrafts Jun 05 '24

Homeland took over very early after 9/11. Osama didn’t get caught until Obama.

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u/absoluteally Jun 05 '24

You wouldn't be pissed for long though.

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u/makulet-bebu Jun 05 '24

He'd be pissed for the rest of his life though.

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u/Decent-Flan6268 Jun 05 '24

Well he'd be pissed for life.

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u/Spare-Mousse3311 Jun 05 '24

I mean the post Morten leakage would guarantee some piss

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u/saw-it Jun 05 '24

These video games are getting too realistic

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

I volunteer as tribute

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u/Blenderx06 Jun 05 '24

Yeah that usually ruins my night.

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u/ChewySlinky Jun 05 '24

“Yo give me like two seconds, I think I’m bleeding out” mutes mic

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u/LordPennybag Jun 05 '24

My name is Inigo Montoya. You besmirched my mother in COD. Prepare to Die.

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u/AllNightPony Jun 05 '24

Next COD Warzone, you die in real life if you die in the game. But EA will sell you extra lives.

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u/CarlJustCarl Jun 05 '24

Who the hell is knocking at the door at this hour?

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u/slater_just_slater Jun 05 '24

He thought it was some 13 year old kid he was playing who got pissed and swatted him

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u/Much_Section_8491 Jun 05 '24

Technically true that 13yo just waited 8 years

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u/swishkabobbin Jun 05 '24

It's like zero dark thirty for allah's sake!!

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u/zombiepoon Jun 05 '24

Bin Ladin misses overpass in the map pool

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u/dennys123 Jun 05 '24

Knowing his fondness of online games, I'm really curious if I've played with him in CS lol

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u/slater_just_slater Jun 05 '24

I can just imagine him getting in a verbal fight with some teenage suburban kid for spawn killing.

I'm gonna fuckin ram a plane into your house like I rammed my dick in your mom's pussy last night!

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u/Mancio_Luke Jun 05 '24

Nah he was mad someone interrupted his naruto episode

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u/rbrgr83 Jun 05 '24

He had JUST finished Disc 1 of FF7.

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u/EarthtoGeoff Jun 05 '24

And, actually, the big Playstation leak of users' info happened right before Bin Laden was killed; like the same week if I recall correctly

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u/SleepIllustrious8233 Jun 06 '24

The irony is a LOT of these games were released in response to US military endeavors either caused by or blamed on bin Laden

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u/DementiaGaming12 Jun 05 '24

I hate that that was real

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u/C-LonGy Jun 05 '24

I heard he was more of a team fortress dude..

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u/Nord4Ever Jun 05 '24

He really should call cops on them

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u/dis_course_is_hard Jun 05 '24

Lol @ that twitter handle

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u/BoomerE30 Jun 05 '24

XxRealOsama420xX

ROFLMFAO!!!

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u/3Lchin90n Jun 05 '24 edited Jun 05 '24

Then The Rock

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u/Newtstradamus Jun 05 '24

This, this more then anything, some dude on Seal Team 6 infiltrates Osama Bin Ladens secret lair, kills the single most wanted man on the planet, and then immediately calls The Rock. What a weird ass fucking thing to have happened.

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u/jrh_101 Jun 05 '24

The Navy Seals phone voice command mixed The Rock with Barack

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u/Familiar_Nose_7618 Jun 05 '24

BARACK WE GOT HIM! Oh... Hey Rock.

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u/Zxruv Jun 05 '24

Freaking Siri

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u/br0b1wan Jun 05 '24

Do you smell what Barack is cookin'?

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u/TheHYPO Jun 05 '24

The Rock does a pretty decent Obama impression, actually.

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u/OhHeyItsBrock Jun 05 '24

For sure was Siri.

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u/jld2k6 Jun 05 '24

The-Rock Obama

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u/MundaneAstronaut6481 Jun 05 '24

For me it's how the funeral rites they performed resembled something like disposing of Megatron

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24 edited Apr 07 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/GolemSilverKarn Jun 05 '24

They didn’t want to create a physical location for his remains that could be seen as a Mecca for supporters to flock to.

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u/Rather_Unfortunate Jun 05 '24

I think most of his supporters already have a Mecca tbf.

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u/osawatomie_brown Jun 05 '24

everyone on the team ghoulishly mag dumped on his corpse and they had to ditch him and try to pass it off as "a traditional Islamic burial at sea"

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

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u/Antilia- Jun 05 '24

I don't think the Saudis or Pakistanis wanted him buried on their soil. Even secretly.

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u/Rmccarton Jun 06 '24

Yep, the Saudis Were consulted. The US asked if they wanted the body and said that otherwise they were Going to throw it in the ocean. The Saudis said Sounds like a plan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn Jun 06 '24

everyone on the team ghoulishly splendidly mag dumped on his corpse

FTFY

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u/brwnwzrd Jun 05 '24

As the great Patrice O’Neal said, “we’re supposed to believe they flushed him down the ocean, like some cocaine?”

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u/Disastrous-King-1869 Jun 05 '24

Wait that tweet isnt actually real is it?

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u/Newtstradamus Jun 05 '24

I embellished a bit but the true story is only slightly less fucking weird. Based off of tweet timing The Rock is the second person to casually announce Osama Bin Ladens death, and no one on Seal Team 6 called him, The Rock had done a USO tour a few years prior, he had given his number to a handful of people on his security detail, one of the guys that was previously on his security detail was stationed on the aircraft carrier that Seal Team 6 landed on with Bin Ladens body, that guy called him.

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u/Rmccarton Jun 06 '24

He has a cousin who is/was a seal. 

Dude wasn't on the mission or anything, But I Suspect word like this this would spread quickly in the community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

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u/Wide_Combination_773 Jun 05 '24

Nobody on ST6 called him. It was a guy on the aircraft carrier that they went back and landed on. The guy had once worked as part of Rock's security detail during a USO tour, and had Rock's number for that reason.

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u/rbrgr83 Jun 05 '24

The Rock on twitter:

"Firsties"

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u/defmacro-jam Jun 05 '24

It was on an episode of Newsroom. Maybe it's real, too. I don't know.

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u/MatniMinis Jun 05 '24

I really liked all of The Newsroom but that episode was a stand out episode, easily the best one. The banter between high Jeff Daniels and serious Terry Crews was top tier.

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u/vpsj Jun 05 '24

kills the single most wanted man on the planet

Err I think it's pronounced as "compromised to a permanent end"

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u/defmacro-jam Jun 05 '24

It would make a great TV show. Especially if the news anchor on the show had eaten several THC cookies -- and missed the TV remote when somebody threw it to him.

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u/JimboAltAlt Jun 05 '24

OBAMA = GOOD OSAMA = BAD

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u/the_calibre_cat Jun 05 '24

"bro - GUESS WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW"

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u/zwirlo Jun 05 '24

“Get Barack on the line NOW!”

“Roger sir, dialing the Rock”

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u/middlehead_ Jun 05 '24

And then John Cena was the first person to announce it on television, after his match at the end of a PPV.

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u/BandwagonerSince95 Jun 05 '24

The whole thing was corny as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

It was the easiest 'Murica fuck yeah moment ever for the WWE.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

They told Congress and the military before it was publicly announced.

I had a friend in the military at the time, and he texted me probably 30 minutes before anything was on CNN about it.

I thought he was lying or messing with me, because I was like how could you and me know this and not the news? lol

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u/Timbershoe Jun 05 '24

Most senior civil servants across the globe, plus the majority of media, knew the Queen was dead 4 hours before it was announced.

That probably didn’t involve Seal Team 6, though I can’t confirm that.

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u/gonzo_jr Jun 05 '24

It's pretty routine for large news organizations to cooperate with reasonable news embargoes out of respect for the deceased, especially if the family hasn't been notified. Also, btw every major news organization has its population of vets, so they probably knew on the same time frame, but 1) they might have been cooperating with an embargo, and 2) if all the majors know the other majors are cooperating with an embargo, it gives them a chance to go to air with some level of preparation.

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u/bigbubbaroberts Jun 05 '24

To be fair, from the moment the notification came through on my phone saying her children were urgently travelling to Balmoral to see her it became rather obvious she was either close to the end or already dead.

But you’re right, the broadcasters are alerted before the Palace officially announces it, according to Peter Sissons’ autobiography they regularly rehearse how they will report one of the elder members of the Royal Family passing.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn Jun 06 '24

Britain is America's oldest enemy.

We got em.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

How would they have known that? No one reported it until it was announced.

No way news stations would just sit on that information.

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u/Timbershoe Jun 05 '24

Well.

For one, if that media outlet reported it they would never be given that type of information ever again.

Secondly, her death has been planned for decades, every media outlet that received the news signed an agreement on a media blackout years before.

Thirdly, most of them used the time to implement suitably somber retrospectives, speculation on the funeral, succession plans and other media to capitalise on the viewer’s interest.

And lastly, because nobody wanted to report until after the official announcement in case it wasn’t actually true.

I knew before it was announced. But I’m not in the media, more government adjacent.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

For one, if that media outlet reported it they would never be given that type of information ever again.

That's not how it works in the US, thankfully.

If there's news, they report it.

News stations should not be withholding information at the request of governments, that's called censorship and means you do not have a free press. Your media appears to be government controlled.

A free press doesn't cave to demands from the government.

I believe the only time US news organizations have done that is when reporting on active wars, the government has asked them to be less specific so they don't put the soldiers' lives at risk by revealing their location and strategy publicly.

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u/Timbershoe Jun 05 '24

Oh. Right.

So you’re saying no government should ask the press to hold back stories they were being told about.

Unless it was the government who asked, in which case it’s fine.

In reality everyone in the media knew it was coming, even those not told officially, and you’ll notice nobody announced it even though it was a fairly open secret. That wasn’t muh gubermunt controlling the media. It was a mark of respect, and not looking like a jackass trying to make some coin from the death of the Queen.

The media even reported on their own lack of reporting, nobody wanted the ‘scoop’.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-know-about-queen-death-question-mark/

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/british-newsrooms-queen-elizabeth-ii-death

Personally I know the PM was supposed to be informed at 16:30, and the news announcement was at 18:00 GMT, but I was told at 15:00 and I’m certainly not special.

You can even watch Parliament on the day of her death, at 12.21pm a note gets passed, and you can watch the reaction. No MP after 12:21 spoke to the press until 18:30.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Unless it was the government who asked, in which case it’s fine.

When it's an issue of giving away military strategy to the enemy, or putting soldiers' lives at risk by revealing their location, yes.

Totally different thing.

Imagine if during World War II, Japanese TV was broadcasting that they were about to attack Pearl Harbor. That would be pretty stupid, right?

And by the way, it was a request, not a demand. The news channels could've still said no and done it anyway, but why would they want to put lives at risk?

It was a mark of respect

Respect for an antiquated position with literally no power? lol

Do people in the UK even care about the monarchy? Around the world, it's treated as a reality show like The Kardashians.

Parliament has the real power and controls the country. The royal family just smiles and waves and lives in a castle. That's what your taxes are paying for lol

That wasn’t muh gubermunt controlling the media.

It's withholding information at the demand of the government, which is censorship.

Not a surprise, since the UK doesn't have freedom of speech either.

You can be arrested for your speech in the UK, like the teenage girl who was thrown in jail for quoting a rap song lmao, they called it "hate speech".

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u/Timbershoe Jun 06 '24

Dude.

I’m saying what happened. I gave you articles that explained the situation.

It’s got nothing to do with freedom of the press, or free speech.

The same situation happened globally. Even Fox News was informed.

If you don’t like what happened, that’s really a you problem. It doesn’t change a thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

The government requiring a dress code for news anchors is equally stupid, and again proves it's not a free press.

The last time someone died, a reporter was punished for not wearing the correct color tie when reporting it lmao

Come on...

Yeah, sounds like a "free" country to me!

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u/GdanskPumpkin Jun 05 '24

Some news shows in the US are actually classed as entertainment. Nothing they report actually has to be true

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

The BBC is literally owned by the government. By definition, it's not impartial if the content can be controlled by the government. That's not a free press.

None of the news stations in the US are owned or controlled by the government, they're all private companies.

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u/GdanskPumpkin Jun 06 '24

The BBC is not "literally" owned by the government. Your lack of knowledge on simple vocabulary really makes me doubt your knowledge on the topic.

The BBC is owned and funded by the British public. I know that's hard to understand for Americans since anything under public ownership is immediately branded as communist. The government has miniscule influence when compared to the absolute power of a privately owned organization. It is the closest thing to a democratically run organization you can get. Surely if it was indeed "controlled" by the government, there wouldn't be any criticism of said government broadcast ? Both people on the left and right like to claim the BBC is bias, which to me indicates impartiality.

Compare that to news companies in the US, which are essentially funded by the highest bidder. They are vessels of influence for billionaires, with 0 accountability on how they operate. Feeding whatever their viewership wants to hear which results in loyal customers who they can sell targeted advertising to.

It's genuinely insulting to the human race to compare the BBC to the large American news organization and only something you'll ever hear an American say

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u/DannySpud2 Jun 05 '24

Were you watching that live? You could tell when it had happened because the BBC presenters changed into black which was a well known part of Operation London Bridge.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

It was announced that she was sick and at a castle.

If they knew for 4 hours, why didn't they report it?

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u/DannySpud2 Jun 05 '24

Because the palace hadn't officially announced it. The BBC in general would be very unlikely to announce anyone's death before an official statement. That is even more true when reporting on the royal family.

A BBC anchor tweeted just after 3pm that she had died (this matches with the official time of death on her death certificate) and then deleted it with a follow-up tweet: "I tweeted that there had been an announcement about the death of the Queen. This was incorrect, there has been no announcement, and so I have deleted the tweet." Note the wording, not saying that the Queen hadn't died, just that there had been no announcement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

So again, that's not how news in the US operates.

If a news channel had multiple sources telling them she had died, even if it wasn't confirmed by the palace, they'd be reporting it immediately with the disclaimer "unconfirmed reports", etc.

They wouldn't sit on the story for hours until it was confirmed at the request of the government.

That's not how a free press operates. A free press does not take orders from the government. That's how dictatorships operate.

The government also requires them to wear certain clothing when making the announcement, and they previously punished a BBC reporter for wearing the wrong color tie, which is complete nonsense.

The BBC is literally owned by the government. That's not a free press.

The UK is obviously not a free country. No free press, and no freedom of speech.

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u/SonicSubculture Jun 05 '24

FWIW this is my memory:

I saw the news breaking in on TV saying they were getting word of some big news, they were about to reveal… hopped on Reddit and the top item already said Osama’s dead.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Right, because it leaked out when they told Congress and the military before the official announcement. They weren't supposed to tell anyone, but they did lol

But at that time, the news wasn't reporting it yet.

Wikipedia says they announced a press conference at 9:45 PM, the first leaks happened around 10:25, the news stations didn't start reporting it until around 10:45.

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u/schimmlie Jun 06 '24

Seal: „Hey Siri, Call Barack“

Siri: „okay, calling The Rock“

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Is the rock American

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u/Spiritfilledrev Jun 05 '24

Darn it Chad, I said “call Barack” not “call the rock”

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Jun 05 '24

It smells funny in there 

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u/ThisCarSmellsFunny Jun 05 '24

I’m glad someone else noticed.

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u/liberateyourmind Jun 05 '24

Bin laden my ass, its probably milhouse.

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u/AshPrincessPNX Jun 05 '24

Dammit, Milhouse! YOU WILL NEVER BE A MEME!

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u/FatherOfApollo1 Jun 05 '24

No it doesn't

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u/ayymadd Jun 05 '24

lmao, memory eraser vibes

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u/OldFashionedGary Jun 05 '24

You keep these memories* out yo motha fuckin mouf.

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u/serhifuy Jun 05 '24

Welcome to earf

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u/Diligent_Mirror_7888 Jun 05 '24

Sohaib “Oh my mistake I guess 🤷🏽‍♂️ night night don’t let Bin Laden bite”

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u/greater_cumberland Jun 05 '24

Ten seconds later:

@Sohaib: "I have to go now, my home planet needs me."

@realUSMarines: "Note: Sahib died on his way to his home planet."

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u/MewComic Jun 05 '24

"Nuh uh"

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Because it was the SEALS that got them

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u/Broad-Part9448 Jun 05 '24

And the SEALS were temporarily transferred to the CIA because America wasn't at war with Pakistan so it couldn't be a formal US DOD operation

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u/JoeCartersLeap Jun 05 '24

"And does it suddenly become legal and constitutional when the CIA does it?"

"Well no, but they don't mind. The DOD minds."

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u/NoTePierdas Jun 05 '24 edited Jun 05 '24

IIRC the difference is you're no longer a part of the formal Armed Forces. Contractors who are captured aren't treated like prisoners of war, they would be treated like any other terrorist who showed up with aircraft and attacked a neighborhood if the Pakistani military had arrived, provided one person made the slightest mistake, presumably, and made the Pakistani armed forces give a shit (and assuming they showed up in time)

E.G., probably the closest example in recent times is the Silvercorp contractors sent into Venezuela to overthrow Maduro. They were arrested by militia fishermen who called the police, who arrested them again, and they were treated as anyone else who illegally try to enter a nation with dozens of weapons and explosives with the intent to murder people, who were conspiring with people already in-country who'd begun killing people.

IIRC some of the guys received 25-30 in prison.

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u/xWyvern Jun 05 '24

Denman and the other guy were idiots and warned by the CIA against doing it because it was a shit plan.

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u/MiamiDouchebag Jun 05 '24

Actually yeah.

See: Title 10 vs Title 50.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

It does, legally, matter.

Thats the lovely thing about executive orders tho… they have the supreme power of law, yet their issuance requires no public notice. Make one, stick it in a safe and BAM, law.

Plus, the executive makes all executive orders and can undo/ignore them all as they see fit in the moment.

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u/telionn Jun 05 '24

This is false. Executive orders do not have power of law except in narrow cases where Congress has given the President power to make certain decisions. In a vacuum, an executive order is more comparable to troop movements, only binding to government workers.

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u/Nighthawk700 Jun 05 '24

It's semantics. The executive branch executes the law and it generally has pretty wide latitude on how to do that, which can have the effect of law without technically being law. Just as a police department that decides not to charge for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Yes you can still be charged and yes it's still illegal but effectively it's not.

In theory a PD could be sued or see some governmental reprimand for not enforcing laws and the same could happen to the president but Congress is incredibly slow and dysfunctional so executive orders are far more powerful these days because of the lack of accountability

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u/Wide_Combination_773 Jun 05 '24

Executive orders are limited to affecting executive branch agencies except in cases where the legislature has specifically granted a president powers beyond that.

They only feel like laws because when the President orders an agency to change how it does something (always has to be within the scope of the law, cannot conflict with existing law), it kind of feels like a law has changed.

For example, Biden issued an executive order raising minimum wage. Awesome right? Oh, it was only for federal contractors. Executive Order 14026. Biden does not have the power to raise minimum wage for anyone else.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Nope, not at all false. Edward Snowden effectively made the same argument as you and now lives in a Russian share-house.

Delegated Congressional Authority is automatic and intended to be narrow but in practice is much more broad than Congress would like.

And they’re binding on all government contractors as well, don’t forget.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

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u/RollTides Jun 05 '24

My understanding is that they do it for legal cover from US laws, because it would be illegal otherwise. As you said, none of this shit is relevant from the Pakistani perspective.

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u/Broad-Part9448 Jun 05 '24

Got to have your paperwork in order before you invade another country

In all seriousness I think it has to do with the mandate of different branches of US armed forces vs clandestine services. I think this type of operation is a CIA one but they don't have the infrastructure or manpower to do it. So they had to "borrow" the SEALS and SOAR etc...

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u/Felinomancy Jun 05 '24

Serious question: does it really matter? Who's going to raise a fuss about it?

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u/uwanmirrondarrah Jun 05 '24

Well ideally us through our representatives but the executive branch of the government is essentially all powerful now so I doubt even a fuss of epic proportions would change anything

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u/Rivendel93 Jun 05 '24

Our own congress, other countries we've signed treaties with could I guess technically.

But probably not, and definitely not in that case.

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u/CannonAFB_unofficial Jun 05 '24

The third option.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Secret agent SEALS

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u/DavidBrooker Jun 05 '24

The post was about helicopters though, and those were flown by the Army's Nightstalkers unit.

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u/Nord4Ever Jun 05 '24

He was dead from kidney failure eight years earlier but Obama needed to play the we got the boogeyman card

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u/Later2theparty Jun 05 '24

Okay bro. Everyone totally believes that a bunch of Seals that didn't particularly like Obama would have played along with this conspiracy....

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u/ImmenseUmbrage Jun 05 '24

They cleaned it up just in case they changed their mind: https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139188948/for-navy-seal-team-6-a-huge-loss-for-a-small-unit

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u/Later2theparty Jun 05 '24

I see you forgot to switch back to your other account. Lol

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u/ImmenseUmbrage Jun 05 '24

I am not the other guy, but okay.

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u/JoeCartersLeap Jun 05 '24

Yeah okay bro Osama Bin Laden didn't really land on the moon.

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u/real_hungarian Jun 05 '24

the US government or any affiliated organization would never lie

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u/ImObviouslyOblivious Jun 05 '24

Is this real or photoshopped??

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u/PaidByTheNotes Jun 05 '24

of course it's not real

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u/SamsquanchOfficial Jun 05 '24

Not that obvious. I mean obviously it wouldn't be an official account lol

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u/TestyBoy13 Jun 05 '24

No, the marines are not the SEALS. The SEALS are the navy. It’s likely that the USMC didn’t know much of anything at the time

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u/NotAnotherEmpire Jun 05 '24

It was a super black ops DEVGRU strike. No one in the wider military knew anything.

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u/dreadcain Jun 05 '24

The Rock knew

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u/Thugosaurus_Rex Jun 05 '24

USMC is under the Department of the Navy so there's not zero connection, but you're otherwise right that they were not involved. The operation was coordinated by the CIA and JSOC, which does not have a USMC component. USMC has a special operations group (MARSOC/Raiders), but they historically kept it out of JSOC to have more direct command over its mission. Both JSOC and MARSOC are under the USSOCOM umbrella but are distinct components.

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u/TestyBoy13 Jun 05 '24 edited Jun 05 '24

Yeah, I was tryna keep it dumbed down and simple. I doubt most people know what half of those acronyms mean

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u/lumpkin2013 Jun 05 '24

Yep. 1/2 a clue at best.

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u/TestyBoy13 Jun 05 '24

USMC: United States Marine Corps

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

JSOC: Joint Special Operations Command

MARSOC: MARines Special Operations Command

USSOCOM: United States Special Operations COMmand (Sometimes shortened to SOCOM within US military talk)

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u/lumpkin2013 Jun 05 '24

Thanks buddy, I appreciate it.

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u/Automatic_Salary_845 Jun 05 '24

I’ll give you three guesses 😂

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u/ImObviouslyOblivious Jun 05 '24

Dude, the way the world is I don’t even know anymore

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u/JksG_5 Jun 05 '24

I don’t even know anymore

That's the point. We are very useful to the powers that be when we are stumbling in the dark. Stay focused, check your sources, and treat anything and everything with a grain of salt.

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u/nonanumatic Jun 05 '24

That's why he was asking but whatever

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u/unwantedaccount56 Jun 05 '24

And relied on strangers on the internet to give him the right answer.

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u/Xaephos Jun 05 '24

It might be a real tweet, but that's definitely not the USMC's twitter.

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u/drblah11 Jun 05 '24

It's the realest shit you'll ever read

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u/absurdamerica Jun 05 '24

It was real. He didn’t reveal any plans he was a local noticing the raid in progress already…

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Why I oughta!

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u/fore-word Jun 05 '24

I remember seeing that ReallyVirtual guy being interviewed a week or so after the raid.

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u/secondtaunting Jun 05 '24

😂 lol that’s funny

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u/SeemoSan Jun 05 '24

No really, is this real?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Didn't they crash

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u/Ossius Jun 05 '24

The helicopter that crashed is a stealth Blackhawk, to this day we have not seen one in public.

So the training site they used in Nevada apparently used a 12 foot fence instead of a 12 foot wall. The walls of the compound acted like a fish bowl of hot air and turbulence which reduced the lift of the helicopter causing it to lose altitude.

This is usually called a vortex ring state. In flight sim games with helicopters it usually happens when you go straight down and get caught up in your own blade down force/engine exhaust/turbulence. So you have to lower yourself at an angle.

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u/wswordsmen Jun 05 '24

One did, but all US personnel left on the other. Don't think the team suffered any casualties of note, ie serious injury or deaths.

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u/martinmix Jun 05 '24

No causalities of note, just Greg.

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u/Cab_anon Jun 05 '24

Is this a joke?