Armed American hunting bin Laden arrested

PAKISTAN detained a middle-aged American armed with a dagger, a pistol and night vision goggles for allegedly trying to sneak into Afghanistan to hunt and kill al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden, police said yesterday.

California construction worker Gary Faulkner, 52, was caught in the Brumboret Valley near the border of Afghanistan’s Nuristan province and was being questioned, Chitral police Chief Jaffer Khan said.

“He was roaming in the security zone in a suspicious manner. He had a dagger and night vision goggles with him. He is being investigated,” Khan said.