Construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner (pic) has been detained after local authorities found him on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. -- PHOTO: REUTERSDENVER - AN AMERICAN man has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after local authorities found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a Rambo-style solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.
Friends and family say construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner is a devout, good-humoured Christian who often talked about building a porch or framing a house - not taking down the world's most-wanted terrorist. They had few clues to explain his 11,750km journey.
'I'm like, What? They got him where?' said Daren Paredes, a friend who met Faulkner in the northern Colorado town of Greeley.
'He's a joker, and he's real talkative. ... He never really talked about terror or anything like that.' The 51-year-old Faulkner, who has a lengthy arrest record and served time in a Colorado prison, arrived in the town of Bumburate on June 3 and stayed in a hotel there. He was assigned a police guard, as is common for foreigners visiting remote parts of Pakistan.
When he checked out without informing police, officers began looking for him, according to the top police officer in the Chitral region, Mumtaz Ahmad Khan. He said Faulkner was found late Sunday in a forest.
'We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden,' Khan said. But when officers seized the weapons and night-vision equipment, 'our suspicion grew'. He said the American was trying to cross into the nearby Afghan region of Nuristan. -- AP
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