A plane carrying a Coloradan who undertook a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden landed at Denver International Airport just before midnight, 10 days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment.
Earlier Wednesday night, a jubilant Gary Faulkner had stepped into the security check line at Los Angeles International Airport, accompanied by his brother, sister and mother.
The Greeley man said he was well cared for during his confinement and that Pakistani medical workers administered dialysis to treat his kidney disease.
Asked if he planned to return to the region, he said, “Absolutely,” adding, “You’ll find out at the end of August.”
Faulkner arrived in L.A. hours earlier on an Emirates Airlines flight from Pakistan, where he’d been detained since June 13.
“This is not about me. What this is about is the American people and the world,” he said in comments aired on KTLA-TV. “We can’t let people like this scare us. We don’t get scared by people like this, we scare them and that’s what this is about. We’re going to take care of business.”
Faulkner is an unemployed construction worker who sold his tools to finance six trips on what relatives have called a Rambo-type mission to kill or capture the al-Qaeda leader. The Associated Press
