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Osama Hunter's Beard Is Intact
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 24, 2010
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Gary Brooks Faulkner, the American detained in Pakistan while he was looking for Osama bin Laden, had a stopover in LA on his way home to Colorado. He told reporters he "absolutely" was going to return to Pakistan and said received dialysis for his kidney issues adding,", "This is not about me. What this is about is the American people and the world. 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 and we will take care of business very soon." Faulkner has served "five separate stints for burglary, larceny and parole violations" in Colorado, according to KTLA.
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