American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sword detained in northern Pakistan

[maddezmom]

Source: Canadian Press

American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sword detained in northern Pakistan
By Munir Ahmed (CP) – 5 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday.

The man was identified as 52-year-old Californian construction worker Gary Faulkner, said officer Mumtaz Ahmad Khan.

He was picked up in a forest in the Chitral region late on Sunday, he said.

"We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden," said Khan. But he said when officers seized the pistol, the sword and night vision equipment that "our suspicion grew."



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[Arrowhead2k1]

1. Dude just wants a chance at getting that reward money.

:rofl:

[maddezmom]

3. I think you're right. ;)

US 'Rambo' on private hunt for bin Laden detained in Pakistan
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The self-styled "Rambo" who has not been formally charged, has visited the region seven times in recent years, according to Urdu language newspaper Mashriq.

Media reports have suggested that bin Laden, who has a price on his head from the US government and other organizations, is hiding in the pine-clad mountains on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He is believed to move frequently between the Chitral and Nooristan regions on either side of the border since escaping from the siege by US forces on the Tora Bora region in Afghanistan in early 2002.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/329156,bin-laden-detained-pakistan.html

[pinboy3niner]

17. Guy's too young to be Rambo, so our fictional hero is still out there somewhere...

...waiting for another sequel to draw him out of his secure, remote (and undisclosed) booby-trapped lair...

[Jamastiene]

2. That description of the guy immediately made me think of Barney Fife and Elmer Fudd...simultaneously

:rofl:

[Submariner]

4. This guy has been watching too many Chuck Norris movies

Delusions of grandeur.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Should have been a bit more subtle

and carried a sock with cue ball in it for example.

[Soylent Brice]

23. lol

[agentS]

6. Why stop the guy?

They should've just let him go about his way and capture/kill Bin Laden. Otherwise it seems mighty suspicious to interfere in this guy's "crusade".

[harmonicon]

19. because he could have gotten himself killed...

and could likely have harmed a number of innocent people.

[burnsei sensei]

41. They stopped him

because their own culture is one that privileges vengeance.
They have no fear of military institutions. Let an informal group of armed men or one extremely enraged one cross their path and they will take him seriously.
This guy is just their type.

[davidpdx]

7. He's a fundy nutcase

And no different from the other idiots that wonder into foreign countries that are unsafe (the two women in North Korea and the backpackers in Iran).

[truthisfreedom]

8. How well have we done?

I imagine this guy is going to have similar results to our own efforts.

[lib2DaBone]

9. Dawg The Bounty Hunter?

[Mugweed]

10. "Bin Laden" is just an actor employed by the CIA.

The actual Bin Laden is long dead. The new "Bin Laden" is the actor the CIA uses to keep the sheep in terror just when the timing is right. The CIA has already freely admitted that they make fake videos and recordings. I suppose the guy should have been headed toward Langley.

[saigon68]

13. the CIA uses to keep the sheep in terror just when the timing is right.

[tom_paine]

28. I agree fully, but just one question...

Do you have a link to the CIA freely admitting they do this?

I don't doubt you, and in fact I agree with you that it is very likely so.

But I would like to see what makes you say it is a 100% certainty that CIA does this.

[Mugweed]

39. A few links

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/cia_group_had_wacky_ideas_to_d.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/26/cia-saddam-hussein-gay-sex-smear-plot

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/cia-wanted-paint-saddam-hussein-gay-report-asserts/

From the Washington Post:
The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,” he said.

[LawnKorn]

11. He sure couldn't be any less successful than the US military has been

[pinniped]

12. His search is futile.

.

[Vattel]

14. probably safer than a drone strike

[old mark]

15. Let him go...he might just be successful, he is not costing taxpayers money,

and it keeps him busy somewhere far away from the USA.

Win-win, IMO...

mark

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Too renegade for the "A" Team.

[reggie the dog]

18. why are you making fun of this guy?

Bin Laden in public enemy number one, this guy went to try to get him on his own, not very likely to happen but still what he is doing is patriotic. I for one will not make fun of him.

[The_Commonist]

21. It's patriotic to go to another country...

...with intention of killing someone?

Pretty fucked up definition of "patriotic" if you ask me.

[reggie the dog]

22. Bin Laden is wanted dead or alive

there is a bounty on his head, this guy is patriotic in the walker texas ranger, or have gun will hire sense, not my sense but I wont make fun of him for it.

[JoeyT]

26. I will.

Anyone nutty enough to wander into a dangerous area in another country and think he's going to ninja the leader of a terrorist organization to death is probably unbalanced enough to kill a random person.

[reggie the dog]

27. ahh good point

[Jack_DeLeon]

35. Some Muslim terrorists have been going to countries and murdering innocent people for years...

I see nothing wrong with someone who wants to travel abroad and kill one of the people responsible for such terrorism.

[fascisthunter]

37. yes, because people wandering into other countries with a few screws loose

is a good thing

[Ian David]

20. Be vewwy vewwy quwiet... I'm huntting Bin Waden. n/t

[Soylent Brice]

24. experts agree...

[CLANG]

25. I agree too, and I'm not even an expert.

[LongTomH]

29. Bin Laden is Schrodinger's Cat!

He's neither dead nor alive until someone opens the box and looks at him!:eyes:

Almost forgot to add: :rofl:

[Vattel]

31. brilliant!

[Robb]

30. Two things I can't believe: 1, that this guy lived long enough to get arrested.

...and 2, that he was in Chitral.

[alp227]

32. Minuteman wannabe perhaps? n/t

[Old Troop]

33. The sword is a nice touch

[awoke_in_2003]

40. hey, if you are gonna get yourself killed...

may as well be stylish about it :)

[Jack_DeLeon]

34. He's probably not the best guy for that job, but I dont begrudge him for trying...

He probably could have been alot smarter in his preparations and whatnot but I dont fault the guy for trying.

[fascisthunter]

36. lol.... psst... Osama is Dead

[drdtroit]

38. A picture from an unofficial, anonymous news source!

[Psephos]

42. Someone ought to tell the redneck that OBL is in Iran, and has been for five years. n/t