Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Meet Gary Faulkner - He REALLY wants to kill Osama Bin Laden


Gary Faulkner's sister calls Pakistan at all hours from her Grand Junction home, trying to get any information about the Colorado man arrested for trying to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
"I am very concerned," Deanna M. Faulkner, 47, told TheDenverChannel.com Wednesday. "The bottom line is my brother has a kidney disease and without treatment in the next two to three weeks, his body will shut down."
So, the sister has been calling U.S. State Department officials from Washington, D.C., to the Pakistan capital of Islamabad, seeking reassurance that diplomats have stressed to their Pakistani counterparts the need for Gary Faulkner to get dialysis treatment swiftly.
She got good news Wednesday: Pakistani officials have moved her brother from the northwest frontier city of Peshawar to Islamabad where U.S. embassy officials plan to meet with the 50-year-old Greeley construction worker.
"He has not been charged," Deanna Faulkner recounted what a State Department official told her. "We have been told that he is still being held and he is still being questioned."

A Statement Department spokesman told TheDenverChannel.com Wednesday that embassy officials expect to soon meet with Faulkner.
"They're trying to arrange a visit with him," State Department spokesman Fred Lash said. "Usually with a friendly power like (Pakistan), it's pretty fast."
Lash could not confirm reports that Gary Faulkner has visited Pakistan seven times in recent years. But the spokesman said embassy officials should be able to confirm such details after they interview Faulkner.
Deanna Faulkner dismissed press reports that a Pakistani doctor who examined her brother said he suffers from psychological problems, as a senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Wednesday.
"He's very stressed and he's been questioned," she said. "We have no idea if he hasn't slept in four days. You don't know what kind of duress he's under."
"It's not fair. Someone's giving a judgment on someone from another country, that's from a different culture. And what one thinks is normal, another doesn't," she added.
The man's brother, Dr. Scott Faulkner of Fort Morgan, agreed.
"My brother is not crazy," Scott Faulkner said Tuesday. "He is highly intelligent and loves his country, and he has not forgotten what Osama has done to this country. He knows the martial arts, and he knows how to handle himself."
The siblings described Gary Faulkner as a deeply religious and patriotic man who wanted to track down the bin Laden to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
"As a Christian he felt, when Osama mocked this country after 9/11 and it didn't feel like the military was doing enough, it became his passion," Dr. Faulkner said. "This is not a vendetta against a different religion. This is against one man who has made it his mission to make America fearful."
Deanna Faulkner said her brother's ability to repeatedly travel to the Pakistan frontier -- and learn the local customs and language enough to blend in -- shows his intelligence and commitment to the one-man mission against the head of the al-Qaida.
"You don't go over there seven times and make it back alive seven times and have done the reconnaissance that he'd done without having some faith in God, having skill and … having some wit about you," she said.
"There are many people who are in the military that go to be a SEAL or a sniper … is that person crazy?" the sister said, referring to highly trained Navy commandos.
Gary Faulkner was arrested on the Pakistani-Afghan border after authorities said they caught him looking for Osama bin Laden in an apparent plot to behead the terrorist leader and collect a $25 million bounty offered by the United States government.
Faulkner was carrying a pistol, a 40-inch sword, night-vision equipment and Christian religious books when he was arrested, said Mumtaz Ahmed, a police chief in Pakistan.
The bearded bounty hunter reportedly told police he wanted to decapitate bin Laden.
"I think Osama is responsible for bloodshed in the world, and I want to kill him," a police official quoted him as saying.
Deanna Faulkner is reassured that her brother is now in a big city where he can get proper medical care. CNN reported that the Pakistani doctor confirm he's a kidney patient who has been undergoing dialysis every 20 days.
"I love my brother," she said. "I hope that everyone prays for him. And that God keeps him safe and bring him home to us."

It could be possible that Gary Faulkner is the last sane man in America.- Cliff 

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