{"id":5735,"date":"2010-06-15T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2010-06-15T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:30:15","slug":"pakistani-police-detain-colorado-man-for-hunting-bin-laden-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5735\/pakistani-police-detain-colorado-man-for-hunting-bin-laden-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Police Detain Colorado Man for Hunting Bin Laden &#8211; Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2010\/06\/15\/colorado-mans-mission-kill-bin-laden-hurrah\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Brooks Faulkner\u2019s quest to find and kill Osama bin Laden<\/a> in the region between Pakistan and Afghanistan; at least the terminally ill man has a bucket list.<\/p>\n<p>According to reporting by <em>Fox News<\/em>, Faulkner suffers from an incurable kidney ailment that left him wanting to go out with a bang before he died.\u00a0 This from his brother:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now that he&#8217;s on dialysis he realized that this is going to be his last hurrah,&#8221; said Dr. Scott Faulkner, an internist in Fort Morgan, Colo. &#8220;One way or the other he knew \u2014 if his kidneys failed him, he could die on the mountain, he could take a bullet, or he could get bin Laden.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Faulkner is trained in the Korean martial art of hapkido, was on his seventh trip to execute America\u2019s #1 enemy, and was armed with a pistol, 40 inch sword and night vision equipment.\u00a0 He\u2019s also savvy enough to get dialysis treatment for his ailing kidneys in between scouting remote forests and mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether Faulkner will be returned to America or stand trial in Pakistan.\u00a0 Either way, that the Pakistani government would arrest him for doing what it\u2019s failed to do since 2001 seems counterproductive.\u00a0 After all, if a highly motivated foreigner wants to risk his life in Waziristan attempting to kill Pakistan\u2019s \u2013 and America\u2019s \u2013 most lethal enemy, why not let him die trying?\u00a0 Let\u2019s let Gary be a force multiplier and see if he can at least spook bin Laden out of hiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Gary Brooks Faulkner\u2019s quest to find and kill Osama bin Laden in the region between Pakistan and Afghanistan; at least the terminally ill man has a bucket list. According to reporting by Fox News, Faulkner suffers from an incurable kidney ailment that left him wanting to go out with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,1421,1420,1422,1423,571,389],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-afghanistan","tag-bucket-list","tag-gary-brooks-faulkner","tag-hapkido","tag-martial-art","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}