bin Laden hunter has 9% kidney function, resembles John Denver, sorta [View All]

[Enrique]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/15/colorado-mans-mission-kill-bin-laden-hurrah/

An ailing American on a solo mission to kill Usama bin Laden was going for his "last hurrah" when he flew to Pakistan to hunt the master terrorist, but he was detained by Pakistani police before he found his prey.

Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 50-year-old construction contractor from Colorado, was picked up in a remote forest near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border carrying a pistol, a 40-inch sword and night-vision equipment, according to Pakistani police.

Though he never served in the military or had combat training, Faulkner is in "great shape" and has been trained in hapkido, a Korean martial art, his brother told FoxNews.com.

But Faulkner suffers from polycystic kidney disease that has left him with only 9 percent kidney function, and he requires dialysis treatments three times a week, his family said.

"Now that he's on dialysis he realized that this is going to be his last hurrah," said Dr. Scott Faulkner, an internist in Fort Morgan, Colo. "One way or the other he knew — if his kidneys failed him, he could die on the mountain, he could take a bullet, or he could get bin Laden."
He said his brother, an avid hunter, told friends and family he was seeking much bigger game in Pakistan.

"After what Usama has done to our country and American troops and our people" — and in light of the government's failure to capture the most wanted man in the world for nearly a decade — Faulkner dedicated himself to locating and executing bin Laden and his inner circle, his brother said.
"Gary thought he's the man for the job," he said.

Faulkner was making his seventh trip to Pakistan since 2002, combing an area rumored to be among bin Laden's hiding places near the Afghan border.

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