American tourist hunts down Osama...

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Armed US 'Bin Laden hunter' is held in Pakistan

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.

"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.

Mr Khan said that when Faulkner was asked if he felt he had a chance of tracing Bin Laden, he replied: "God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him."

The US embassy in Pakistan confirmed that a US citizen had been arrested and 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.
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What a bizarre story....I do admire his courage for searching for Osama with nothing but a pistol, knife and a sword (?).
 
This guy stole my idea!

Sometimes I had this fantasy where I go on a solo mission to kill Osama. I guess that makes me crazy as this guy. Although I had the brains to know getting around in a nation where you don't speak the language isn't easy. I do alot of exploring in the southwest U.S., and I can tell you, finding a person in an area that large would not be easy. Especially when they have lots of body guards. Getting through all those guards with a pistol would not be easy.

I suppose we are warped by all of our action movies where one guy can take on an entire army. Rambo 4: Osama goes down.
 
We need more people with this go get'em attitude!
 
He had a pistol, dagger and a sword and was carrying night-vision equipment as well as Christian literature.
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Pretty much everything you'd need for an Al-Qaeda hunt in the Hindu-Kush.

Over packing is a common mistake.
 
Chance of man unfamiliar with the terrain dying in rural afghanistan due to violence and/or natural conditions: high

Chance of man unfamiliar with the terrain finding Osama by wandering around with night vision goggles: very low

Chance of man unfamiliar of rural afghanistan finding Osama before he dies due to violence/climate, then arresting him (and presumably his entourage) with a pistol and a sword, then making it back to claim your $25M: virtually zero.

Kind of like playing the lottery, except if you don't have the winning ticket, you also die....
 
Obviously this was intended to be a one way mission.

America's answer to suicide bombing.
 
I would love to see what this guy’s plan was. So far the articles just give us the facts – he was in Pakistan and was caught with the weapons and he was on his own mission… But what did he really expect to do, and how did he expect to go about it? That is my question.

If he really did intend to just wander into the area to find Osama and kill him, then yes he is an idiot.

But if he had survival skills, knew the area and language, had a plan for finding him, maybe he is less of an idiot.

Still crazy though.
 
Could you imagine if this actually did work? :lol:

10 years, many billions of dollars and thousands of lives couldn't do what one man with a sword could!
 
BSmith1068 said:
Could you imagine if this actually did work? :lol:

10 years, many billions of dollars and thousands of lives couldn't do what one man with a sword could!
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That would be just epic. A real-live action hero... what a thought. I'd definitely see a major blockbuster coming his way.
 
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