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So How Close did the American ‘Osama bin Laden Hunter’ Get?

So How Close did the American Osama bin Laden Hunter Get? If you ask Gary Faulkner, the self-proclaimed Osama bin Laden Hunter from Greeley, CO who gave up everything to hunt down and kill the world’s number one terrorist, he deserves some credit for Osama bin Laden’s death.

“I had a major hand and play in this wonderful thing, getting him out of the mountains and down to the valleys… Someone had to get him out of there. That’s where I came in,” Faulkner told ABC News. “I scared the squirrel out of his hole, he popped his head up and he got capped.”

And while he’s proud of the U.S. military, he’s not ashamed to sing his own praises: “They were handed this opportunity on a platter from myself.”

Last June Faulkner, a construction worker, set out on his quest armed with a dagger, some biblical literature, a pistol, night-vision goggles, and a samurai sword. And as crazy as it sounds, CNN says he was relatively close to bin Laden’s compound the day the terrorist was killed. Key word, “relatively:”

How far off was Faulkner, whose across-the-world trek still remains shrouded in mystery?

Chitral to Abbottabad is roughly about 300 miles, according to Google Maps technology, indicating about a “7-hour” drive.  Yeah right. To put the distance in perspective, according to Google, the two places are about the same distance as Atlanta, Georgia, to the Florida Panhandle.

Of course, much of the Pakistan route is undriveable because of foothills and mountains. The area is also said to be inhabited by fiercely independent tribes.

Now that his journey is over, Faulkner not only wants a piece of the glory, but he also wants a piece of the $27 million reward placed on bin Laden’s head.

In an initial interview with ABC, he wasn’t convinced bin Laden was dead. But that seems to have changed now that he’s looking for compensation:

So How Close did the American Osama bin Laden Hunter Get?

“He hadn’t been living there for no damn six years,” Faulkner said. “I absolutely flushed him out.”

He added: “I’m on cloud nine. To know that I actually had a hand in this … . It was a good marriage of myself, the Pakistani government and our government and now the man has been brought to justice not even a year later.”

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  • Michael G
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:52am

    If this guy wants money, he might want to consider going back into construction.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:52am

    The only thing that guy has ever flushed out is his own poops.

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    • Archibald Nastybottom
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 3:12pm

      Wrong MOSSBRAIN. I believe that the nurses at the psych-ward clear the bedpan for him.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:57pm

      Moss for brains, what did you claim to have done to try and catch OBL, sit on your tush and be a keyboard cowboy

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  • Giveitrevolution
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:45am

    well the fact is the guy did something none of us did or even thought of. I dont think he deserves any money but hey we need more stand up for whats right kinda people. AMEN

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  • semi
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:34am

    Oh give him little something for his effforts, his heart was in the right place. I agree with giving most to the Navy Seals and the children/relatives/wounded warriors/families of the NYFD & NYPD

    What contributed most was the enhanced interrogation techniques. Please don’t erroneously call these techniques “torture.” They are not. When compared to torture, such as cutting ones head off, enhanced techniques leave no permanent damage.

    I have a theory as to why UBL’s (dead) body was given religious consideration.. It was an order given by Obama upon giving agreement to ‘pull the trigger’, and is something Obama would have respect for.

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  • wsbrennan
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:29am

    This guy just locked himself a spot for next year’s Celebrity Apprentice!

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:27am

    He was FARRR off the mark.

    I telepathically incinerated Bin Ladin in 2001 with my “OM MANI PADME HUM” Psychic Maelstrom.

    His ashes were blown away by my flatulence while I meditated in the “horse stance”.

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  • mac410
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:23am

    This guy has one heck of a best selling book to be written and published. Even if it is full of a pack of lies it will sell big time. He needs to get out a pencil and a pad and start writing. Someone will publish it even if he just makes up the story.

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  • Tyr
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:14am

    Boston Corbett received his share of the reward money, amounting to $1,653.84 after shooting John Wilkes Booth in the neck. As did the other members of the military patrol. Will the Seal Team get to share the reward money? I REALLY, REALLY doubt it!

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    • integrican
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:21am

      Members of the Military or Government do NOT qualify for any reward money. I seriously doubt that any of the Seal Team would even consider it. If they do, in fact, think they deserve some of the money, then I think they should pay back the investment we ALL made for them to accomplish the task. Those helos and weapons systems, along with the all the other resourses we spent on this project would then be deducted from the reward money. If that was the case, any military personnel receiving monetary compensation would actually owe us money. Like I said, our Seal Teams are in NO WAY in it for the money!!!

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  • airportengineer
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:13am

    Lots of people thought this guy “Rocked”…….. before he opened his mouth to claim glory for something he didn’t do! Shameful! He went from American hero, to Progressive liar! Looking for money from others, without earning it! Typical Progressive!

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  • rabblechat
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:39am

    Yea the guy is kinda nutty but you have to give him credit; You gotta have a big pair to go solo with a Samurai sword and dagger over in Pakistan for a year! Thats not exactly the most friendly place in the world for Americans! Kudos to him for having the courage to try and settle the score in his own crazy way! I’m glad we get to see him again on TV being interviewed not beheaded!

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  • saviorammo
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:33am

    Should have had a camera like survivorman. Or proof of death. Our freak‘n junkshow government doesn’t want to give us that either. So might as well give him the money. Bet they will if he promises to recruit for Obama.
    !
    Courageous, yes. Loony tunes yes. Surprised he is alive, YES!

    Would like to see if he had any hotel bills?

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  • bandi9
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:33am

    i told my gf that i thought he was hiding out in Pakistan. do i qualify for some of the reward money too?

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:24am

    Take the reward money and start paying our debt back, and maybe we will praise you for it Obummer.

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  • Seede
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:19am

    Even though Faulkner may have not done what he says he did do, there is some book material or even movie material with this guy. He did have the guts to do whatever and so my hat is off to the guy regardless whether or not his story is true. Personally I believe that Faulkner believes his own hype but I do not believe he flushed out OBL. I think they got OBL simply through torture of his comrades. Every man in this world has a breaking point and it’s as simple as that.

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  • Conkuur
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:19am

    Yeah he definitely is a grill short of a bar-b-q.

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  • SLR Cameras
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:14am

    Poor guy. I kind of feel sorry for him. I hope they give him honorable metion or something.

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  • USAF SFS
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:12am

    I admire his courage. How many people do you know that would have gone all the way over there to do this? HOWEVER….I do think he is a few cards shy of a full deck!

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  • koibaby
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:09am

    Wasn’t the US searching in Afghanistan when this dude showed up searching in Pakistan?

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:07am

    I will let him do all the talking, you can make up your own minds.

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  • threecats407
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:03am

    Ok guy. You had about the same moment in the spotlight that a witness to a plane crash gets on the news. Move along now.
    One more result of a screwed up economy. No construction jobs=time on your hands.

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  • Paul Scipio
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:54am

    He’s a F-ing Kook why even give him the notoriety of even a news story like this?

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    • LibertyWon
      Posted on May 6, 2011 at 2:41am

      The audacity of greed should be shown the light of day.
      Would you live overseas for a few years if you thought there was a good chance you might be in line for $27m?

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:53am

    I remember all the Hollywood folfs Like Springstein, Willis offering rewards after 9/11 willis offered 1 million time to make them pony it up. I believe that money should be given to the wounded warriors foundation and the kids of fallen soldiers

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  • D0ntTread0nMe
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:52am

    I really don’t get this guy… oh wait yes I do!!! he obviously is more worried about fame than anything else or he would have justquietly gone back to his life right?
    http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • SoldierChuck
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:11am

      kinda like someone who links his personal blog under every comment :/

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  • LittleLordFauntleroy
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:47am

    It’s an I,Me,My World

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:39am

    God above the people falling out of the tree who just will not stay away when their time is long done in the spotlight.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:43am

      I remember hearing about this guy, I geuss he deserves some credit as well. Congrats to all who played a role in getting Bin Laden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUYPR00D5A

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    • TurkeyTail
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:44am

      So true. Does this guy actually think he’ll get a dime!?

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    • LittleLordFauntleroy
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:46am

      Just like us.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:53am

      I don’t understand what Faulkner thinks he did? Walking around in the mountains. Does he even think OBL was even aware of this crazy man walking around with a samurai sword?
      I want a piece of the reward money for praying that we find OBL. I did my part.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:58am

      @Turkeytail:

      Probably does, the fact is though, if I recall correctly, citizens of America could not collect on these bounties at all. There was a question from one newscrew about that once, and I think that is how it was explained under the Bush administration.

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:00am

      Ya gotta love this guy, some will say he’s a nut but is he ? I say no he seems like a real Patriot to me

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:19am

      did he get osamas scalp, “No”, then go home.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:36am

      Gary Faulkner, the self proclaimed Osama-bin-Laden hunter,from the State of Colorado claims he “flushed the squirrel” out of his hold and handed him to the US Navy Seal Team 6 on a silver platter,. Who then easily “capped” or shot and killed him. He claims he was close and closing in on the trail of Osama-bin-Laden when he was killed On May 2, 2011 by a US Special Operations Navy Seal Team. I suppose 300 miles is “close” if your Gary Faulkner.

      Yea right, get real Gary. A one man mission of hunting and killing Osama-bin-Laden would have been as probable as me going to the moon riding on a left over 4th of July “Roman Candle”. This guy is something else. Not only does he want recognition for his part in the mission, but, also wants to claim part of the $27 million reward that had been offered for the capture or confirmed killing of Osama. If I was Gary, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting to collect my “reward”. I’m sure others will put in their claim also for the reward or at least part of it.

      Why not split the $27 million reward among the families of the NYFD & NYPD members that lost their lives at the World Trade Center, military personel that died at the Pentagon and families of the passengers on flight#193 that crashed in Pennsylvania. I’m glad Osama-bin-Laden was killed instead of being captured. Dead the book on Osama can be closed, but captured, another book would have had to be opened. After 9 years and 8 months not one conspirator has been brought t

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    • jeffp605
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:04am

      Ok yes he looks a little nutty but you gotta admire his guts lol !

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    • cemerius
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:26am

      If this idiot gets any reward I will demand my piece of the action too! After all, since I am now retired I am no longer a combatant. While I am at it all my Desert Combat Vets need some of that too!! Spread the wealth around and start with the Navy Seals!!! Of course, I know we as being military DO NOT rate such a thing but, this looney tunes guy should be satisfied with his monthly government check and fade away!

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    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:21am

      Well, he got his *ss all the way over to Pakistan and didn’t get killed so I guess you gotta hand him that! Probably made some nice friends too… :)

      Oh, and he presumably made it through TSA. That’s the biggest accomplishment of all! If it were me, I’d still be walking because I refuse to fly anymore due to those jack booted blue (brown) shirts. I’m an American, after all, not some *od *amned sheep to be poked, prodded, violated, insulted and irradiated and I won’t stand for it. If everybody got some backbone and did that, that BS would stop right now.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:35am

      This guy is a real american hero. You people need to show respect.

      Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American  
    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:33pm

      You’re absolutely right, B.Q.S.F.C.A. He is an AMERICAN hero! The guy may be off his rocker but that’s just the point, isn’t it? He saw something wrong in the world, put down the Doritos, set aside the remote, picked up his Samurai sword, :) got up out of that rocker and in true American fashion, did something about it!!! He may have more in common with Don Quixote than Rambo but at least he DID SOMETHING! They are trying to breed that out of us! That’s who we ARE! I salute the guy and I think he should get the reward, just because. An E for effort too!

      And just to prove that he has the luck of the bold, the Pakistanis arrest him, Ninja sword and all, then let him go! They could have trumped up charges and let him rot in prison for 30 years. The guy’s heart is in the exact right place and I for one definitely honor him. *uck jealousy. *uck envy. *uck sour grapes. *uck small minded judgments. He’s what being an American is all about!

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:09pm

      “I found him, I got him, I killed him” , words of the bounty hunter, watch my bank account grow by 25 million.
      signed,
      B H Obama
      POTUS

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