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."
Did I read that right? He's carrying a pistol and a 40 inch sword? Is Faulkner a ninja? This has to be the biggest bad ass on earth. When you need dialysis 3x's a week and you set out to Pakistan armed with a sword to hunt the most dangerous and most wanted man in the world, you're either bat-shit crazy, or you're a badass. Nothing would make me happier than to wake up one random Saturday morning to hear Gary Brooks was being flown back to the US with his 40" sword and Usama Bin Laden's head.
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