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Your email address will not be published. He was arrested on September 1, 2011, and was detained at the Weld County North Jail Complex in Greeley. He traveled from Islamabad to Lahore, and then to Sialkot where he stayed on a military base before being directed to a town in a northern tribal area of Gilgit. He helped two families of Vietnamese Montagnard refugees settle in the USA, and many regarded him as a friend to those in need. But he wasn't in Colorado. The pistol was a .30-caliber Chinese pistol that carried eight rounds with no safety. A Colorado man was detained in Pakistan after telling police there he was on a mission to kill Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. Its not surprising that he purchased a sword. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. as if still bound to it, He earned a private pilot's license, taught himself how to machine guns, and spent several summers collaborating on mathematical research in Italy at the Universit degli Studi di Perugia. According to his sister, Deanna, he has only nine percent kidney function and requires dialysis three times a week. He has been receiving kidney-dialysis treatment at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, where he has lived and worked for the past three months. He reportedly told police he had been hunting Bin Laden since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and intended to lop off his head with the 40-inch sword. He was born in Houston, TX on January 8, 1951 to parents Winnie Fae Gentry and Clint Faulkner Sr. Gary met Katherine in Houston, TX, married on September 14, 1974, and were married 48 magnificent years. 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Survivors include his wife, Patricia C. Brooks; children, Elisha Thomas and Erica (Josh) Stoves; son-in-law, Darrell Thomas; grandchildren, Elijah Thomas, Emma Thomas, Ella Thomas, Jeremiah Stoves, Lily Stoves and Sophie Stoves; mother, Annette Brooks; brother, Junior (Sonja) Brooks; sister, Marteen (Shane) Bailey; niece, Courtney (Tommy) Beckwith and children; nephew, Jayce Barbee; mother-in-law, Margaret Cowart; sister-in-law, Linda (Robert) Durand; and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. Gary Faulkner paid for his trips by working construction jobs. "[9] Mumtaz Ahmad Khan, a senior official in the Peshawar police, told the Associated Press, "We initially laughed when he told us he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden. 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Funeral services for Gary Lynn Brooks of Hanceville will be held at 1 O'clock P.M. Thursday, March 18, 2021 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hanceville. "[15] Faulkner was not paid the bounty nor was anyone else. [1], In January 2008, Faulkner made his eighth attempt to search for Bin Laden in Pakistan and set out for Los Angeles where he could apply for a visa to enter Pakistan. He described the people in the area as "running around with axes and all kinds of stuff, working on cutting down trees and making the new cave. 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He sold his construction equipment to finance his latest trip and was able to get dialysis in southern Pakistan before he began tracking bin Laden, Scott Faulkner said. In the 21st century, it's not just urns and gravestones anymore. Despite earlier reports claiming that Faulkner wanted to kill Osama bin Laden, he wanted to capture Bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and had no plans to hand him over to the American government as he did not want to "drag this thing any further". Faulkner, 50, was born in California but moved decades ago to Colorado, where he worked construction. He was born July 15, 1952, in Erie, a son of the late William A. and June. If Osama showed himself in Denver, (Gary Faulkner) would be happy to get him here.. June 17, 2010 -- Gary Brooks Faulkner, the American who was detained in Pakistan while on a one-man mission to kill Osama bin Laden, is fairly healthy and in "good spirits . 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If anything, said Stienmetz, I would have thought he would be in the hospital because of the dialysis. Bernstein Funeral Home and Cremation Services Gary Southerlin Faulkner, 80, of Germantown, TN, passed away on July 6, 2022 at St. Francis Hospital from COVID. The Dignity Memorial brand name is used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that include affiliates of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. Graveside services will be held at Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens, GA, at 11:00 a.m., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. The items he carried on the trip along with a samurai sword, gun, night vision goggles, a bible, Smith & Wesson handcuffs, a copy of Andrew Wommack's A Better Way to Pray, and a Liberty Dollar. A very special thanks to MD Anderson Hospital, Memorial Herman, Dr. Eric Wonl, Dr. Lee, and Heart to Heart Hospice. He published 14 papers and was cited over 90 times. 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