Now Osama bin Laden is gunning for him!
“Rambo”-wannabe Gary Faulkner yesterday said bin Laden and fellow terrorists have put a bounty on his head after the wacky Colorado construction worker was nabbed near the Afghan border hunting the 9/11 mastermind toting a pistol, a samurai sword and a Bible.
“I’m on the top of their list,” the bearded Faulkner bragged to The Post at an Upper West Side Irish pub, where two burly bodyguards kept watch over him.
“The Pakistanis came to me and said my picture was being distributed by the Taliban and al Qaeda with a bounty. They want my head,” Faulkner said in a pro-wrestler-style rant in which he brushed aside most questions put to him by citing “security” issues.
“They want me as bad as I want him,” said Faulkner, who has done time in Colorado for crimes including burglary and domestic violence.
“My family has already been instructed where not to go, what not to do, because of safety concerns. The last thing I want to hear is that any of my family members were slaughtered.”
Faulkner, 50, electrified — and befuddled — the world when Pakistani authorities picked him up in a forest near the Afghan border June 13.
“You should have seen me — I looked just like the Taliban, an al Qaeda crazed murderer,” he chortled yesterday.
The born-again Christian claimed God told him in a dream to avenge the Sept. 11 terror attacks by catching bin Laden, who has a $25 million bounty on his own scalp.
“I’ve had visions since I was 5 years old,” Faulkner said.
Faulkner, who contemptuously referred to bin Laden as “Binny Boy” and “Binny Baby,” vowed to return to Pakistan to finish his mission against the al Qaeda fiend.
“We’re only in halftime right now. It’s the fight of the decade, right here,” said Faulkner, who plans to visit Ground Zero on this trip to the Big Apple.
“Something is going to happen very shortly, within the year. Dead or alive — this man [bin Laden] is coming back with me,” Faulkner said.
“It’s like two prizefighters. I’ve talked my smack; now it’s his turn to step up.”
Faulkner, who suffers from a kidney ailment that requires frequent dialysis, said he planned on dealing with his health issue during his hunt by taking advantage of the fact that bin Laden has the same problem.
“The only thing I knew is that he had one [a dialysis machine] and it’s just like a gas station. Unfortunately, I ran out of gas before I reached the gas station,” Faulkner said.
He also yesterday appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” where he told the talk show host that he twice sailed to Pakistan to hunt Osama.
Letterman also gave him gifts, like Frommer’s Guide to the Mountainous Border Region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.