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Gary Brooks Faulkner: Will It Take a Vigilante to Get Osama Bin Laden?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyGary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker from California, was detained Sunday by Pakistani authorities after being found with a gun, sword and night-vision goggles. Faulkner claims he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden. But while that my cause a few chuckles (including from the Pakistanis who detained him), the real joke is not on a would-be Rambo like Faulkner but on the U.S. government, which has yet to capture or kill bin Laden as we approach the nine-year anniversary of 9/11. After those attacks, the Bush administration allowed bin Laden to sneak out from Afghanistan ...
Senate Report Claims Bin Laden Was 'in Our Grasp' in 2001
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA Senate Foreign Relations Committee report issued this weekend says that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden "was within our grasp" when he was "cornered" in the forbidding mountains of Tora Bora in December, 2001 under intense U.S. bombardment. ...
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