The kooky Colorado construction worker busted in Pakistan as he hunted Osama bin Laden said today that he had no plans to kill him — just nab him alive and bring him to justice — and that he’s getting help from the Pakistani government.
The claims by Gary Faulkner, 50, come after he was busted in northern Pakistan on June 13, armed with a pistol, sword, Bible and night-vision goggles, saying he was just trying to hunt down bin Laden.
“I want to capture him alive and bring him into justice,” he said in an interview this morning on “The Early Show” on CBS. “Just like Saddam [Hussein], who was insane. He went down like a dog, because he was in a hole. He came out. Then he had his big boast in front of the courts and the world and stuff, and he got hung.”
Faulkner also said he has been getting help from people inside the Pakistani government and military.
Without elaborating, Faulkner said, “Because of the nature of what’s still yet to come, I can’t divulge too much as far as that because there’s a lot of people’s lives if it would come out who actually gave help.”
Faulkner has been been arrested 10 times in Greeley for crimes including burglary and domestic violence, but friends and family have said he’s not delusional — just patriotic.
“He just got tired of it and said, ‘I’ll do something about it,’ and so he did,” said Faulkner’s friend Darren Parades. “He’s a hero in my book.”
With AP