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The WWF's Roddy Roddy Piper Case: A PR Disaster
The WWF is not implicated in anything criminally as far as the law is concerned, right? The fact that McMahon himself might have been buying steroids illegally doesn't mean there's a conspiracy that the WWF is involved in. So this gets a bunch of wrestlers subpoenaed before a federal ground jury, all as John Doe's. And they get Zohoryan indicted. Invents knew that he needed a way to distract the public, so the Gulf War seemed like a really convenient thing. They were going to fight together as a team of heels. Adnan would be General Adnan, an Iraqi soldier. Sergeant Slaughter was basically depicted as going traitor against the United States and for the Iraqi army.