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Jun 24, 2010
Osama hunter heads home
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Mr Faulkner spoke briefly with reporters, saying he was feeling good but was looking forward to taking a nap. 'All I want to do is get some rest,' he said. -- PHOTO: AP
DENVER (Colorado) - AN AMERICAN who traveled to Pakistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden has returned home to Colorado, several days after authorities there found him in the woods with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. A tired yet buoyant Gary Faulkner reached Denver's airport around midnight on Wednesday following a journey that began much earlier in the day in Pakistan, where he had been detained since June 13.
Mr Faulkner spoke briefly with reporters, saying he was feeling good but was looking forward to taking a nap. 'All I want to do is get some rest,' he said. Mr Faulkner declined to field questions about his trip or his immediate plans as he was hustled through the airport by brothers Todd and Scott. He traveled from Los Angeles with Todd, his sister Deanna and mother Arlene. In Pakistan, he told officials he was out to kill the al-Qaeda leader.
He was then moved to Islamabad, and his brother Scott told The Associated Press this week that he was being released by the Pakistani government without charges. During a stopover in Los Angeles, Faulkner told reporters about his intent to get bin Laden. Faulkner is an unemployed construction worker who sold his tools to finance six trips on what relatives have called a Rambo-type mission to kill or capture bin Laden. Scott Faulkner told reporters last week that his brother wasn't crazy, just determined to find the man America's military has failed to capture nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks. -- AP
