bin Laden hunter has 9% kidney function, resembles John Denver, sorta

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/15/colorado-mans-mission-kill-bin-laden-hurrah/

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."
He said his brother, an avid hunter, told friends and family he was seeking much bigger game in Pakistan.

"After what Usama has done to our country and American troops and our people" — and in light of the government's failure to capture the most wanted man in the world for nearly a decade — Faulkner dedicated himself to locating and executing bin Laden and his inner circle, his brother said.
"Gary thought he's the man for the job," he said.

Faulkner was making his seventh trip to Pakistan since 2002, combing an area rumored to be among bin Laden's hiding places near the Afghan border.

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cured?

:thumbsup:

That's a rumor that popped up through several "unnamed sources." The few times specific facts in the rumor could be checked (his appearance at specific hospitals, for instance), they've been disproven. There have been just as many rumors with just as many credibility that he was perfectly healthy, and some that he has kidney stones. The kidney stone story sounds more likely, given that one of the verified visits to Bin Laden in the 90s said that Bin Laden was ill, and that he was drinking a lot of water and green tea because of his kidneys. With renal failure, you avoid liquids.

The kidney failure story could have been disinformation from our CIA to undermine Bin Laden. No one wants to commit body and soul to a leader likely to die in a short time of an unglamorous illness that tethers him to special treatments. It's not an unusual way to undermine someone. Or it could have been disinformation from Al Qaiada, or from some other rival.

Any way it goes, there's no certainty he ever needed dialysis.

I doubt the CIA put it out there. The original story was that the CIA met with him while he was in the hospital getting dialysis in July 2001. It may undermine him, but it undermines them even more.

Here's the article from the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.terrorism

is supposedly alive in a cave with no dialysis machines after all these years.

:rofl:

:freak: Damn instruction are written in Arabic! :freak:

I wonder if he will start talking to Tom Gordon while in the wilderness.

Or maybe the singer from the country band "Alabama".

It is ironic that he's dying from the same thing Osama did though.

down Bin Laden than our government is....