| Lelaki ini Mahu Membunuh Osama bin Ladin! Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:10 AM PDT Lelaki inilah yang ditangkap oleh pihak berkuasa Pakistan di kawasan pergunungan negara tersebut ketika sedang dalam misi untuk memburu Osama bin Ladin. Namanya ialah Gary Brooks Faulkner, seorang pekerja binaan, berasal dari Amerika Syarikat. Ketika ditangkap, pihak berkuasa menemukan pedang, pistol, dan gajet untuk melihat pada waktu malam bersama-sama dengannya. Menurut anggota keselamatan Pakistan di daerah Chitral, Muntaz Ahmad Khan, "Kami hanya tergelak apabila dia memberitahu niatnya yang mahu membunuh Osama bin Ladin." Namun, apabila pemeriksaan lanjut dilakukan dan mereka menemukan pelbagai senjata, mereka mula mempercayai kata-kata Faulkner. Ketika disoal siasat, Faulkner menyatakan bahawa dia cukup marah selepas serangan September 11. Katanya "Saya yakin Osama bertanggungjawab terhadap pertumpahan darah di seluruh dunia dan saya mahu membunuhnya". Apabila ditanya tentang harapan untuk menjejaki Osama, Faulkner menjawab "Tuhan bersama-sama dengan saya, saya yakin dapat membunuhnya." Namun, menurut laporan media, Gary Faulkner yang kuat dengan pegangan agamanya merupakan bekas banduan yang terlibat dalam jenayah dan sering keluar masuk penjara antara tahun 1981-1993. Untuk menjayakan misinya, Faulkner dilaporkan telah menjual segala alat pertukangannya dan menurut abangnya, Faulkner dikatakan bersedia untuk mati di Pakistan.  Menurut laporan media, Faulkner yang berusia 50 tahun telah berkunjung ke Pakistan sebanyak 6 kali dan belajar serba sedikit bahasa penduduk tempatan. Dia juga sengaja membiarkan misai dan jambangnya panjang. Saya petik: An American construction worker has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after authorities there found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.
Catching bin Laden was Gary Brooks Faulkner's "passion," his brother said, noting the 50-year-old has been to Pakistan at least six times, learned some of the local language, and even grew a long beard to blend in. Relatives and acquaintances said Faulkner is a devout, good-humored Christian who requires dialysis and did time in prison years ago.
"A lot of kids grow up and say, 'I want to be Rambo,' you know? Well, he is," said Faulkner's brother, Scott Faulkner, 43.
Gary Faulkner arrived June 3 in the town of Bumburate and stayed in a hotel there. The Greeley, Colorado, man was assigned a police guard, as is common for foreigners visiting remote parts of Pakistan.
When he checked out without informing police, officers began looking for him, according to the top police officer in the Chitral region, Mumtaz Ahmad Khan. Faulkner was found late Sunday in a forest.
"We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden," Khan said. But when officers seized the weapons and night-vision equipment, "our suspicion grew." He said the American was trying to cross into the nearby Afghan region of Nuristan.
Chitral and Nuristan are among several rumored hiding places for bin Laden along the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment generally deny the possibility that bin Laden is hiding somewhere along the Pakistan-Afghan border, as Western intelligence agencies believe.
On Tuesday, Faulkner was being questioned by intelligence officials in Peshawar, Pakistan's main northwestern city. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Scott Faulkner dropped his brother off at Denver's airport May 30, and the two discussed the possibility Faulkner would not return alive from his search of bin Laden.
"He talked about why he was so passionate" to find bin Laden, Scott Faulkner recalled, adding his brother retained vivid memories of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. "He has not forgotten."
But Scott Faulkner insisted his brother was on a rational mission. "He's as normal as you and I," Scott Faulkner said. "He's just very passionate, and, as a Christian, he felt, when Osama mocked this country after 9/11, and it didn't feel like the military was doing enough, it became his passion, his mission, to track down Osama, and kill him, or bring him back alive."
Scott Faulkner said his brother sold all his tools to finance his trip and was prepared to die in Pakistan. He also said his brother took no weapons and had a valid visa for Pakistan. Scott Faulkner hoped his brother wouldn't be charged with a crime. Faulkner's sister, Deanna M. Faulkner of Grand Junction, Colorado, said her brother suffers from kidney disease that has left him with only 9 percent kidney function. But she told The Associated Press she did not think his illness was his motivation to go to Pakistan.
"I don't believe this was, 'I'm dying, and I'm going to do a hurrah thing,"' she said.
Khan said Faulkner told investigators he was angry after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"I think Osama is responsible for bloodshed in the world, and I want to kill him," Khan quoted him as saying.
Asked why he thought he had a chance of tracing bin Laden, Faulkner replied, "God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him," Khan said.
He said police confiscated a small amount of hashish, enough for a single joint, from Faulkner.
"I'm worried about him," Deanna Faulkner said. "I'm worried that in Pakistan, they won't give him his dialysis. And if he doesn't get it, he's in serious trouble."
Bin Laden, who is also reported to have kidney problems, has evaded a massive manhunt since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, which he is accused of masterminding along with other attacks. The federal government has offered a bounty of $25 million for information leading to his capture.
Hugo Corral, who owns a barber shop in Greeley, recalled cutting Faulkner's hair a few months ago. He said Faulkner was quiet and wouldn't answer his questions. After the haircut, Corral said, he saw Faulkner acting strangely outside his shop.
"He would walk, then stop, then do something like he was saluting something. It was kind of weird," Corral said. Through the glass of his shop, he said he could hear Faulkner cursing at no one in particular.
Stacey Stienmetz, who lived in Faulkner's apartment building in Greeley, described him as adventurous. Two years ago, he recalls Faulkner planning a hang gliding trip. More recently, he said Faulkner spoke about going to Pakistan to climb a mountain.
Gary Faulkner was in and out of Colorado state prisons between 1981 and 1993, serving a total of about seven years in five separate stints for burglary, larceny and parole violations, state officials said.
The Larimer County sheriff released a mug shot from a 2006 arrest on charges of failing to have car insurance. It shows Faulkner with shoulder-length gray hair parted in the middle with bangs that reach the sides of his wire-rim glasses.
He also has a shaggy, black beard with traces of gray hair in it, and he appears to be wearing a camouflage-patterned shirt.
A family photo of him leaving Denver's airport for Pakistan on May 30 shows him with a beard.
- AP |
| Opps! Mereka Kata Ini Alasan Bekas Adun DAP Malim Nawar Melompat Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:28 PM PDT Dia difitnah dan diperas ugut? Angkara siapa? Baca laporan di bawah ini. Akan dikemas kini dengan versi bahasa kebangsaan sebentar lagi. Menurut laporan FMT: The plot centres around RM45,000 which purportedly went missing from the law firm of Keshvinder Singh, the Malim Nawar state assemblyperson who quit DAP this afternoon.
While Keshvinder denied Umno having a hand in this, Perak DAP vice-chairman A Sivanesan however claimed otherwise.
According to the Sungkai assemblyman, Keshvinder had related his ordeal when the two met some three weeks ago.
"He told me that one of his clerks in the law firm had embezzled RM45,000 of his client's money and he was in a fix.
"Unfortunately for him, the news reached Umno. From then on, they used this issue against him and coaxed him into defecting," he said, adding that he had advised Keshvinder to file a police report.
Sivanesan said that Keshvinder had revealed this to several other DAP leaders, including Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran.
He also challenged Keshvinder to deny that he had informed him and the rest about this issue.
'Umno-linked clerk'
Contacted later, Kulasegaran not only confirmed this, but added another twist to the plot, claiming that the clerk who had allegedly absconded with the money was linked to Umno.
"Keshvinder told me that the Umno-linked clerk had not only run off with the money but also took along the client's receipts.
"He was worried that the receipts could be manipulated to tarnish him," he said, adding that he too had advised Keshvinder to lodge a report with the authorities.
"He (Keshvinder) went missing yesterday and we feared the worst," he said.
Kulasegaran also urged Keshvinder "to do the honourable thing" and resign as state assemblyman since he had won the seat under a DAP ticket.
Perak fell into the hands of Barisan Nasional after the defection of several Pakatan MPs, leading to the allegation that they were paid a hefty sum to abandon ship. A charge which BN has denied.
On Feb 25, 2009, Keshvinder himself filed a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission claiming that he was offered RM20 million to defect to BN.
In a related matter, Sivanesan lashed out at Keshvinder for accusing DAP of not supporting him in serving his constituency.
" When he was offered to contest in the 2008 general election, we told him clearly that the BN government may not provide allocations to constituencies under opposition control.
"At the time he said that he understood the situation and was ready to contest. Opposition reps in Malacca, Johor and Negri Sembilan are also not getting proper allocations but we find ways to raise funds to serve our constituencies," he said.
"The people know and understand our predicament. That is why they believe in our cause" he added. |
Menurut laporan media, Faulkner yang berusia 50 tahun telah berkunjung ke Pakistan sebanyak 6 kali dan belajar serba sedikit bahasa penduduk tempatan. Dia juga sengaja membiarkan misai dan jambangnya panjang. 
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