American Man On Mission to Hunt Down Osama Bin Laden Arrested in Northern Pakistan
June 16th, 2010I couldn’t help thinking about Jake and Elwood as I read through this one.
Via: BBC:
An American man who claimed to be on a mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden has been arrested in northern Pakistan, police say.
They said that Gary Brooks Faulkner, 52, was detained in the mountains of Chitral district north of Peshawar.
He had a pistol, dagger and a sword and was carrying night-vision equipment as well as Christian literature.
Police say Mr Faulkner was stopped near the border with Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, a known Taliban stronghold.
They say he told investigators after his arrest late on Sunday that he was on a solo mission to kill Osama Bin Laden who is thought to be hiding in the mountainous Afghan-Pakistan border area.
The al-Qaeda leader is the world’s most-wanted man, with the US offering a reward of up to $25m (£17m) for information leading to his capture.
‘God is with me’
Police say Mr Faulkner, who is from California, arrived as a tourist in Chitral on 2 June and was assigned a security escort before vanishing on Monday evening.
A search was then launched and he was found in a forest a few miles from the Afghan border.
“We have interrogated him and he has told us that he was on his way to Afghanistan to capture and kill Bin Laden,” Mumtaz Ahmed, a senior police official in Chitral told the BBC.
“We arrested him in the Bamburat valley close to the border with Nuristan province of Afghanistan.”
Police say that their suspicions grew when officers seized the pistol, the sword and night-vision equipment.
Mr Faulkner is now being questioned by intelligence officials in Peshawar, the main city in north-western Pakistan.
He has told police he visited Pakistan seven times, and this was his third trip to Chitral.
Police say that Mr Faulkner was also carrying a book containing Christian verses and teachings.
Asked if he felt he had a chance of tracing Bin Laden, he told police, “God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him,” the Associated Press reports.
The US embassy in Pakistan confirmed that a US citizen had been arrested and said it was seeking access to him.
Correspondents say that the Chitral area is widely seen as having escaped much of the violence that has blighted the rest of north-west Pakistan.
In April a Greek man who worked in one of the few museums in the area was released by the Taliban after being held by them for eight months.
Bin Laden has evaded a huge US effort to capture him since the attacks on the US of 11 September 2001 for which he is blamed.
Chitral – because of its close proximity to Nuristan – is considered to be one of his possible hiding places.
Bin Laden’s already dead, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ
I have read something recently (maybe on this site) regarding these mentally unhinged assassins ala Hinckley, Sirhan Sirhan, etc, who appear to lead (according to friends and amily…) ‘normal’ lives but then out of nowhere, like someone speaks the magic word, they become a Manchurian Candidate type killer, with some deep-seated urge to kill/destroy their target of choice, ie, Reagan, Lennon, the Kennedy Clan in general, the Army Major in Texas….hard not to connect these incidents to some kind of OGA mind-control experiments that obviously seem to work quite well, although the controllees seem to be sadly inept at implementation….
This news also made it in my local news paper this morning. This simply looks like some propaganda aimed at making us beleive that Osama is still alive and dangerous. I mean, the story is probably true, but I bet they reported it for the propaganda value.